Book Review
The Ballast Seed: A moving memoir of parenthood, depression and the therapeutic power of plants
An unexpected pregnancy and subsequent crisis threw journalist Rosie Kinchen’s life into disarray, from which she emerged after discovering the simple pleasures of horticulture
Timing, they say, is everything in life – and for Rosie Kinchen, the timing of the arrival of her second child, just two years after her first, could not have signalled a more dramatic change in her circumstances.
A sense of despair is the first emotion that percolates through Kinchen’s heartfelt memoir, that emotion surfacing when, as the happy mother of a baby, partner to P, and employee at a newspaper, she discovers she is ...