Playing With Water
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On Sale:
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30/03/2005
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Formats:
Trade paperback
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Kate Llewellyn′s world is one that concentrates on the simple things...the planting of flowers, the moving of a tree, the art of digging the perfect hole. This is a life that endows small things with grace and dignity.
After moving from her much-loved home in the mountains, Kate starts to establish her new garden in a coastal town. Here she also plants roots in her new community and details the small acts of humanity that lead to friendship. In capturing a moment, such as mowing a lawn with a blind man in the moonlight, waiting for the sound of frogs in a backyard pond or watching a lyrebird disappear into the scrub, Playing with Water creates a meditation on nature, on community and on the cycle of life.
With a poet′s touch, Kate transports us so we feel the endless heat of summer; experience the smoky winds and the orange skies of the bushfire season; taste the salt that hangs in the air on the walk to the seapool; and hear the squelch of lifting arum lilies from the mud...
In Playing with Water, Kate Llewellyn has created a lyrical memoir that is a celebration of the senses and the seasons.
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The Dressmaker's Daughter
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