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Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road
by Margaret Roach
Margaret Roach worked at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for 15 years, serving as Editorial Director for the last 6. She first made her name in gardening, writing a classic gardening book among other things. She now has a hugely popular gardening blog, "A Way to Garden."
But despite the financial and professional rewards of her job, Margaret felt unfulfilled. So she moved to her weekend house upstate in an effort to lead a more authentic life by connecting with her garden and with nature.
The memoir she wrote about this journey is funny, quirky, humble--and uplifting--an Eat, Pray, Love without the travel - and allows readers to live out the fantasy of quitting the rat race and getting away from it all.
"Starred Review. A moving, eloquent and joyously idiosyncratic memoir." - Kirkus
"Readers may appreciate her candid, stream-of-consciousness style in this memoir, but it is too unstructured and inchoate to be as satisfying as her other work." - Publishers Weekly
"Roach limns a reflective odyssey for affirmation and acceptance that blends Zen-like wisdom with zany escapades." - Booklist
"And I Shall Have Some Peace recounts her transformation from urban routines to bucolic simplicity. A fine read for Walter Mitty rural folk." - Barnes and Noble
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Margaret Roach has been a columnist at the New York Times, fashion editor at Newsday, the first garden editor for Martha Stewart Living magazine, and the editorial director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. In 2008 Roach left New York City for her home upstate, where she is a consultant and avid gardener, keeping fans up to date on her blogs "A Way to Garden" and "The Sister Project". Roach is the author of A Way to Garden, named Best Garden Book of the Year by the Garden Writers' Association of America, and Groundcovers, part of the Burpee American Gardening Series, and co-authored The Natural Habitat Garden.
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