{"product_id":"my-life-in-a-garden","title":"My Life in a Garden","description":"\u003cbr\u003e \"Funny and beautiful - and I hate gardening\" DAVID BADDIEL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An amazing book\" ALISON STEADMAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Honest and funny and so very timely\" FAY RIPLEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen TV comedy writer Carl Gorham moved out of London to the country with \nhis wife and young daughter in 2005, he swopped a small, terraced \ncottage with a thirty-foot garden for a large, detached house in Norfolk\n with three acres. An extraordinary fifteen years followed, a roller \ncoaster ride of extraordinary highs and lows - bereavement, recovery, \nprosperity, unemployment, illness, triumph, struggle and happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Life in a Garden \u003c\/i\u003edescribes that emotional, dramatic and comic period, a story told through the \nchanging relationship between the author and his garden. How they were \nenemies, then friends. How he hated it, how he missed it. How he drew \nstrength and support and understanding from it. How at times it seemed \nas if it was rebelling against him and trying to teach him something \nabout his own stubbornness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Life in a Garden \u003c\/i\u003eis a book for the average, frustrated but dogged gardener; a story \nabout the thousand and one small frustrations that confront an \nindividual trying to master his environment; a tale to be enjoyed by \nanyone who has ever failed to conquer bind weed, or despaired at the \nmanic growth of bamboo or wondered why all animals seem to do is just \npoo everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's a book for \nour times, when we are seeking more than ever to understand our place in\n the natural world and by extension, our relationship with the rest of \nhumanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ireton Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250162618712,"sku":"9781068654404","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781068654404_ed9fca3f-0144-414f-8224-fbd7dabc8475.jpg?v=1751904062","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/my-life-in-a-garden","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}