The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
A Year of Gardening and (Wild)Life
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Kate Bradbury
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Kate Bradbury
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Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. But while she's doing this Kate's neighbours continue to pave their gardens, the wildlife she tries to save is further threatened and she feels she's fighting an uphill battle.
Is there any point in gardening for wildlife when everyone else is drowning the land in poison and cement? If the dead could return, what would they say about the land we have taken, the ancient routes we have carved up, the wildlife we have lost?
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- Daniel P
- 18-08-19
Beautifully inspirational
I found this book really inspirational and I could relate to it on so many levels.
I highly recommend it!
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- F SHARP
- 19-06-19
Amazing
Brilliantly poignant book, hard to listen to sometimes and made me cry but a book full of hope too.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-10-21
Candidate for Nobel peace prize for humanity
Words and expressions fall off the writers pen like poetry. From the heart. The realisations for those walking and crawling the planet today ring so true. If only these leaves could be scattered like confetti all over a certain meeting starting tomorrow. They may realise how simple it can be. Thank you Kate
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- MRS S
- 05-07-24
So beautifully written and narrated. A MUST READ!
I loved this book so much, I listened to it again immediately, bought it for my mum and recommended to others. Thank you for writing this. You have changed my attitude to how I garden. I am now going to make a pond!
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- Dec
- 23-04-20
They will come brilliant book my own childhood
Can relate to my own childhood with our lost garden but as I tell my children belive and they will come first class book
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- RDGU6
- 20-06-22
Poetic, sad, funny, hopeful!
Love love loved it!
Read beautifully, written beautifully- did not want it to end.
Have since invested in borage, love in the mist, and many more wildlife-friendly plants,, also more bird boxes, non-mown grassy areas, added to my new hotels and want to dig a pond!!!
Read it, listen to it - it’s gorgeous!
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- louise patterson
- 19-09-22
It only takes one
Kate narrates her beautiful story with all it's up and downs. Painting her naturalist canvas as she struggles against society and it's ever increasing urge to block out the natural world in its aim to create sterile environments void of life.
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- liz
- 18-12-24
Important messages that need to be acted on
Everyone with a garden should do the right thing. There is no excuse. Great book. Thank you.
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- Jo Curtis (Cope)
- 18-09-20
Brilliant audio book
Wonderfully read to bring alive the passion required for our lovely natural world
Wish it was longer
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- Anthony Saville
- 31-07-19
Delightful and passionate
Just recently moved into a new house on a large housing estate, so I was hoping for some encouragement as well as entertainment. Delightfully written and engagingly read by the author herself. More autobiographical detail and modern sadness than I usually go for, but I turned down the volume for the medical bits, and waited for nature to reappear. Fine, knowledgeable and expressive detail on plants, birds and insects. I shall certainly do all I can to look after bees; and have come away hugely encouraged. Thank you.
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