# The Grassling by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett (Paperback)

**'A subtle, moving celebration of place and connectedness . . . _The Grassling_ brings the sounds, smells and sights of the countryside alive like few other books. Burnett stretches the limits of prose, infusing it with poetic intensity to create a powerful, original voice' PD Smith, _Guardian_  
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_What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered and chiming with bones. That breath is that place and until I get there I will not really be breathing.  
  
_Spurred on by her father's declining health and inspired by the history he once wrote of his small Devon village, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett delves through layers of memory, language and natural history to tell a powerful story of how the land shapes us and speaks to us. _The Grassling_ is a book about roots: what it means to belong when the soil beneath our feet is constantly shifting, when the people and places that nurtured us are slipping away.

## Details

- **Price:** 11.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** Penguin Books
- **Type:** Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
- **Tags:** All Books, Biographies & Memoirs

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- The Grassling by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett (Paperback) cover

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