Books by garden writer Margaret Roach

“ Once upon a time, a faithless 25-year-old got down on her knees and fashioned her first garden. It was a sorry thing, but also a matter of great pride, this perennial checkerboard imprinted on a sloping bit of ground outside her family’s kitchen door…. ”

“ As a passionate, hopeful and often self-delusional gardener (the only kind of gardener there is!). I loved this gorgeous book. Margaret Roach writes with intelligence, compassion, and most of all—sanity. Her work is a blessing.” —'Eat, Pray, Love' author Elizabeth Gilbert

“ 'Margaret’s powerful and thought-provoking meditations on nature, time, the seasons, and the challenges of a good deer fence will resonate with you.” —'The Happiness Project' author Gretchen Rubin

“ As I read this witty, revealing, sometimes poetic confessional I felt I understood for the first time what a garden could be—a work of art, a source of pleasure and solace, an object of beauty, a provider of nourishment. And why Margaret calls the plot she tends ‘my monster.’ This is the story of a real relationship: Margaret and her garden, a love story. ” —'The Vegetarian Epicure' author Anna Thomas