Thursday 10 October
An Author Talk with Lalage Snow
7.00 pm in the Library for drinks and nibbles then 7.30pm for the talk in The David Hall.
A few years ago Lally Snow moved to a Dorset village with her husband and three small children, having spent over a decade as a war photographer, foreign correspondent and film maker living in Kabul. She covered the conflict there as well as other wars from Gaza to Eastern Ukraine, and Iraq.
In the late winter of 2021-22, Lally decided to rent an allotment, despite having only a rudimentary knowledge of gardening. She was starting from scratch and setting herself the dual challenge of growing an allotment at the same time as growing a family.
My Family and Other Seedlings is a heart-warming, wry and at times tearful account of Lally’s travails as a mother and novice allotment holder, counterpointing horticultural progress with the perils of parenting. Along the way she reflects on the drudgery of English rural domesticity after a professional life chasing war and adventure, the history of the allotment since Saxon times, and the wonderful moment when gardening becomes fun rather than just feeding a family.
Tickets for this event are available from the Library or its website https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on?q=south%20petherton £4.00 in advance, £6.00 on the door.
