# The Grassling

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- Book: [The Grassling](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-jane-burnett/the-grassling) ([The Grassling.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-jane-burnett/the-grassling.md))
- Authors: [Elizabeth-Jane Burnett](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-jane-burnett)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-963-1
- Published: 2019-03-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'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 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.