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'Alice Vincent is on song' KATHERINE MAY<BR>'Stimulating and humane' AMY LIPTROT<BR>'A quiet and profound kind of miracle' CLOVER STROUD<BR><BR>Like so many of us, Alice Vincent had become overwhelmed by the sensory overload punctuating her every moment. Then a baby's heartbeat arrived. A rapid, pulsing whoosh of white noise. An undeniable rhythm. Suddenly, Alice's life changed. With the birth of her son came a new experience of the sensory world around her. <BR><BR>From the phantom crying heard by mothers across the world to the nightingale's song and the crackle of the aurora borealis, Hark is a journey into sound and the changing seasons of a life that will ring true for many women.

Was bewegt Frauen heute noch dazu, einen Garten zu haben und zu pflegen?Das Gefühl, einsam und isoliert zu sein und der Wunsch nach tiefer Verbundenheit führen die Journalistin Alice Vincent zu einem außergewöhnlichen Vorhaben: Sie erstellt eine Liste von Frauen, die sie bewundert und mit denen sie gerne sprechen möchte - über das Leben und über das Gärtnern. Sie will verstehen, was Frauen dazu bewegt, hinauszugehen, den Boden zu bearbeiten, Samen zu säen und Pflanzen zu pflegen, auch wenn so viele andere Aufgaben auf ihren Schultern lasten. Vom Wachsen und Aufblühen versammelt sehr persönliche und berührende Lebensgeschichten von Frauen zwischen 22 und 82 Jahren, immer ist der Garten Fluchtpunkt und Kraftort und offenbart verborgene Wahrheiten. Das Buch führt an verwunschene Orte in England, Schottland, Frankreich, zu Cottages in Rosengärten, zu Kräutergärten und Sozialarbeitsprojekten. Einfühlsam und voller Neugier spürt Alice Vincent den Gründen für das Gärtnern nach, die so vielfältig sind, wie die Frauen: postnatale Depression, Verlust, Trauer, Migration, Identitätssuche, Mutterschaft. Ein einzigartiger literarischer Spaziergang zu Orten, die uns widerstandsfähiger machen.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION<BR>THE TIMES / WATERSTONES TOP 10 BESTSELLER<BR>A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE INDEPENDENT, STYLIST, RHS, GARDENS ILLUSTRATED and more<BR><BR>Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that: to understand what encourages women to go out, work the soil, plant seeds and nurture them, even when so many other responsibilities sit upon their shoulders. To recover the histories that have been lost among the soil and to understand women's lives, their gardens and what the ground has offered them. <BR><BR>Wise, curious and sensitive, Why Women Grow follows Alice in her search for answers, with inquisitive fronds reaching and curling around the intimate anecdotes of others.

AN INDEPENDENT 'BEST BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025'<BR><BR>'Alice Vincent is on song' -KATHERINE MAY<BR>'Stimulating and humane' -AMY LIPTROT<BR>'This book is a quiet and profound kind of miracle' -CLOVER STROUD<BR><BR>We're told women are good at listening, but we rarely examine what they're listening to, what their worlds sound like, or how it feels to be expected to listen in a world of noise made by men.<BR><BR>Like so many of us, Alice Vincent had become overwhelmed by the sensory overload punctuating our every moment. And then, a baby's heartbeat arrived. A rapid, pulsing whoosh of white noise. An undeniable rhythm. Once again, Alice's life became cacophonous - both with a new child, but also with the societal pressures that motherhood holds. <BR><BR>What followed was a personal quest to rediscover sound as something alive and vital and restorative. Beyond music, Alice's journey takes her into new corners of listening: from the phantom crying heard by mothers across the world to the nightingale's song and the crackle of the Aurora Borealis. As our attention spans shrink and our sense of disconnection grows, Alice wants to find out if sound - seeking it, trying to hold on to it, making space for it in her life - can reconnect her not only to lost parts of herself but to a life more consciously lived. Hark is a book for women who feel unheard and a means of listening more deeply in a world that has grown too loud.