She found herself instinctively drawn to the local parks and scraps of communal green spaces in her local south east London neighbourhood, and to therapy via tending a hidden garden deep within the city. Terrified at the prospect of adding another child into her already precariously balanced life, Rosie was compelled to find a new way of living. The surprise of a second pregnancy, so soon after the birth of her first son, plunged Rosie into a despair that spiralled into deep depression. This is a memoir that will make you weep, then roll up your sleeves and plant the seeds of a new life.' Cal Flyn author of Islands of Abandonment It's a story of vulnerability, persistence and the will to live. Beautiful and sad and hopeful all at once - luminous and lush, full of dirt, darkness, sun light and soft new growth. Print The Ballast Seed - A Story of Motherhood, of Growing up and Growing Plants
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