WELL GARDENED MIND : Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World

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ISBN: 9780008100735
Title: WELL GARDENED MIND : Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World
Author: STUART-SMITH SUE
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

‘The wisest book I've read for many years … Much more than a gardening book, much more than a guide to mental health … Hugely recommended' Stephen FryTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

How can getting outdoors help us to look after our mental health?

In a powerful combination of contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis and brilliant storytelling, The Well Gardened Mind investigates the magic that many gardeners have known for years – working with nature can radically transform our health, wellbeing and confidence.

Prisoners given the chance to grow plants are less likely to reoffend.

At-risk young people who get their hands in the soil are more likely to stay in education.

Elderly people who garden live longer and have a better quality of life.

Sue Stuart-Smith tells brilliant, illuminating stories of people struggling with stress, depression, trauma and addiction, from asylum seekers to veterans, inner-city young people to the retired.

This is a glorious book of science, insight and anecdote that shows how our understanding of nature and its restorative powers is only just beginning to flower.‘An important and timely book … Beautifully written, drawing on a lifetime's experience as both a clinician and a gardener, and I urge everyone to read it'MONTY DON‘

Riveting, inspiring and often very moving … A lively, compassionate exhortation for us all to get our hands back in the soil'ISABELLA TREE‘

A compelling and deeply moving account of how profoundly our wellbeing can be affected through contact with gardening and the natural world … Read it'EDMUND DE WAAL

Imprint: Harper Collins
RRP: $24.99