{"product_id":"the-morville-hours","title":"The Morville Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about time and the garden: all gardens  but also a particular one: that of the Dower House at Morville  where the author arrived in 1988 to make a new garden of her own. Katherine Swift takes the reader on a journey through time  back to the forces which shaped the garden  linking the history of those who lived in the same Shropshire house and tended the same red soil with the stories of those who live and work there today. It is an account which spans thousands of years. But is also the story of one life: of relationships tested to breaking point  of despair and loss as well as joy and achievement. It is a journey through the seasons  but also a journey of self-exploration. It is a book about finding ones place in the world and putting down roots. The Morville Hours takes the form of the medieval Book of Hours  recalling the monastic past of the house. Each chapter is named after one of the Hours of the Divine Office  and summons vividly to life an hour of the day or night in the garden of today and in the gardens of the past  from the crunch of grass underfoot at midnight on a frosty New Years Eve to the drip of trees in a melancholy March dawn; from a perfumed May Day morning when the whole world seems sixteen again  to the enervating heat of a Midsummer noon; from the bloom of blue-black damsons picked on a golden September afternoon to the smell of holly and ivy cut in the dusk of a cold Christmas Eve. Together they describe the arc of the gardening year  and the arc of a life  from darkness into light  and from light back into darkness once more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965452742709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0747592586","price":81.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780747592587.jpg?v=1770496643","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-morville-hours","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}