Smell of Summer Grass: Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill - Adam Nicolson

Smell of Summer Grass: Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill - Adam NicolsonThe Smell of Summer Grass is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal idyll, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, cook and gardener, Sarah Raven. Without knowing one end of a hay baler from the other, Adam Nicolson and Sarah Raven, fed up with London and with life, escaped with his family to a run down farm in the Sussex Weald. Looking for Arcadia, they found a mixture of intense beauty

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