Margaret Roach is the author of the memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There. She has been an editor at the New York Times, fashion editor and garden editor at Newsday, the first garden editor for Martha Stewart Living magazine, and the editorial director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.Margaret is now a consultant and avid gardener, keeping fans up to date on her website A Way to Garden, which Anne Raver of the New York Times called "the best garden blog" she'd seen. Margaret is also the author of A Way to Garden, named Best Garden Book of the Year by the Garden Writers' Association of America.
"As a passionate, hopeful and often self-delusional gardener (the
only kind of gardener there is!), I loved this book. Margaret Roach
writes with intelligence, compassion, and-most of all-sanity. Her
work is a blessing."--Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat,
Pray, Love
"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."--Anna Thomas, author of The
Vegetarian Epicure and Love Soup
"In matters of both earth and heart, Margaret Roach is fearless.
She digs deep. What she finds, and what she offers in this lyrical
memoir of a gardening year, is hard-won wisdom laced with humor,
hands-on how-to delivered with a poet's touch, experience embraced
with fervor, humility, and grace."--Katrina Kenison, author of
Magical Journey and The Gift of an Ordinary Day
"On her knees in the garden, Margaret cultivates an intimate
relationship with the Beloved, finding what the body, heart and
soul may most desire. As Rumi says: "Why should we not play like
that sometimes, having fun, exploring some nooks...in our own
backyard."--Daniel Ladinsky, bestselling Penguin poet-translator of
Hafiz and Rumi
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