The Allotment Diaries

A Year of Growing and Remembering
A meditation on family and food, on the turning of the seasons and our relationship to the soil

‘Diary, manual and love letter. An honest, moving, and beautiful book . It felt like an honour to read this’ NIGEL SLATER

‘A beautiful, lyrical memoir . I was so moved’ AMY KEY, author of ARRANGEMENTS IN BLUE

‘Incredibly rich. Eagle gives us an earthy philosophy of time through the returning seasons of one small patch of land’ REBECCA MAY JOHNSON, author of SMALL FIRES

‘Honest and intimate, Thom Eagle writes with tenderness’ VICTORIA BENNETT, author of THE APOTHECARY BY THE SEA

February produces an abundance of leeks; May brings forth the first spears of asparagus. June’s courgettes demand endless recipes; August’s blight strikes the tomatoes. October sees beans soaking in home-made broth, red wine and barley. December’s