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Growing Out of Trouble
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Product Description
Monty Don's own experience of recovering from depression and maintaining his sanity through gardening led him to set up an unusual project. In 2005 he began working with a group of disaffected young people who had never had the opportunity to work with the land, never been aware of the seasons and never eaten proper food -- let alone grown it or shared it with others. Would this experience do more to make them good citizens than the might and weight of the penal system? Looking after angry, disturbed people who resent you and almost everything else in their world proved much harder. Monty Don's extraordinarily powerful book is not only a moving and dramatic account of the work of the project but also a passionate plea for us to recognize some painful truths about modern rural.life.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #161296 in Books
- Published on: 2006-11-02
- Released on: 2006-11-02
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"* 'Truly inspiring... told with compelling honesty' - Mail on Sunday on THE JEWEL GARDEN * 'Overwhelmingly honest, passionate, inspiring, with prose to die for. Like everything else Don does, this purports to be about gardens and gardening but is actually a meditation on family and love' - Julie Myerson, Books of the Year, Independent on THE JEWEL GARDEN"
About the Author
Monty is best known for his weekly column on the Observer, for presenting a number of prestigious series for Channel 4 and, most recently, as main presenter of BBC Gardeners' World. He lives and gardens in Herefordshire with his wife Sarah Don, with whom he wrote THE JEWEL GARDEN, and their children.
Customer Reviews
A Good read
I work with young people, i love growing vegatables and i enjoy reading so i was as happy as a pig in you know what with this book. I really loved the way he was very honest about his own struggles and about the challenges of working with heroin addicts. This is no fairy tale, everything didn't go as perfectly as he first thought it might. This was about real life heroes working with real people with real stories and the results were remarkable.
