Uprooting

‘A beautiful memoir that shows how gardens can be a place to plant our most troubled feelings, to put down roots and to find peace’ - KATHERINE MAY‘A tender book, raw in some parts … Farrell generously shows the reader the value of openness, considering what we have to learn from other people and species’ - AMANDA THOMSON‘Glistening … This book will change how we speak of gardens, land and identity in myriad ways. An exquisite love letter [and] a rallying call’ - Irish Times‘Uprooting is a potent hymn to the importance of home and a deeply thoughtful offering on what our gardens can be’ - ALICE VINCENT‘A wonderful book’ - Financial Times” -

Marchelle Farrell is a therapist, writer and amateur gardener. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she has spent the last twenty years attempting to become hardy in the UK. She has trained and worked as a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist. When not neglecting it for the care of her young children, or her work in the community, Marchelle spends much of her time getting to know her country garden in Somerset and writing about the things the garden teaches her about herself. Her debut Uprooting won the Nan Shepherd Prize.