Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

'Magnificent...I will never forget it' - Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love 'A mind-altering and supremely generous exploration of kinship, selfhood, memory, and the roots we share across time, space and species' - Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything 'In this beautiful book Kyo Maclear unravels the knotty stories we inherit - and create - about who we are and where we come from. With deftness and clarity she ranges from meditations on memory, belonging and truth, to the earthy tangibility of the garden. Fierce, loving, inquisitive, devastating - this book got under my nails and into my heart. I loved it' - Lulah Ellender, author of Grounding 'Unearthing is a masterful lyric exploration of identity, inheritance and belonging in the wake of an unsettling discovery, that deftly queries what makes us who we are, and what happens when the stability of our foundations is challenged. It investigates nature, nurture and genetic legacies, who our parents are before and beyond us, and who we become because or despite them. Both seasonal, contemporary and spiralling through botanic and genetic time, the writing is absorbing and transformative; the story will grow through you' - Polly Atkin, author of Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better 'A lucid and compelling memoir of family rupture and repair and the power of plants to anchor us in the world' - Sue Stuart-Smith, author of the Sunday Times Bestseller The Well Gardened Mind