AT YOUR REQUEST, custom-inscribed, gift-wrapped copies of “The Backyard Parables” as well as 2011′s “And I Shall Have Some Peace There” are available using the Shopping Cart here. Or come to one of my 2013 events, and have one signed in person!
AT YOUR REQUEST, custom-inscribed, gift-wrapped copies of “The Backyard Parables” as well as 2011′s “And I Shall Have Some Peace There” are available using the Shopping Cart here. Or come to one of my 2013 events, and have one signed in person!
“ I was a 'big success,' people told me, but the secret I never spoke in reply or anytime was my belief that I had long ago given up on me—the one whom others, in equations of family, love, and work, relied upon—choosing the easy route over a path toward things they don’t necessarily pay you or pat you on the back for.... ”
{ Read More... }“ 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…. ”
{ Read More... }“ 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
How did I go from She Who Lives in the World to She Who Lives
in the Woods?

Hi Margaret,
I’m so happy to hear about your latest book. I’m reading “And I Shall Have Some Peace There” right now, and I look forward to reading “The Backyard Parables.”
I sent you a personal email last month, but I realize you probably get tons of email. I had some questions for you, but I can understand if you’re not able to answer them for me.
Best wishes to you with your latest book and may you have a splendid gardening season ahead!
Michael Vyskocil
Thanks, Michael, for saying hello. I will go to the email and look — many times things get buried, especially when I am lecturing a lot like last month, and I apologize.
margaret
we read your first book with bated breath and quite a few tears.
and now we’ve done it too.
we walked away.
*wavingfromLosAngeles*
a writer’s life is now here – we got our first book deal (Hay House end of 2013) and much happiness.
thank you. thank you. thank you.
_teamgloria x
I love this, TeamGloria! A West Coast branch of Book Writers Anonymous. :)