Common Table - Softcover

Janice Marriott; Virginia Pawsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1869508416 ISBN 13: 9781869508418

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand), 2011

Synopsis

Two Gisborne friends go their separate ways after high school - one to Wellington and a busy city life the other to a rural existence on a North Canterbury farm. After a school reunion six years ago they rekindle their friendship through their shared love of gardening writing to each other with humour compassion and joy. Their first book COMMON GROUND celebrated their different gardens and talked about the challenges each woman had faced through past tragedies. This their eagerly awaited second book again uses their wonderful wise witty and utterly human letters to trace a journey through the seasons of their very different kitchens -- one in a small inner city cottage the other a rambling country kitchen on a busy working high country farm. Their friendship provides sustenance on many levels and their skilful and complementary writing styles encompass details of their everyday lives. Effortlessly readers are invited to see how their respective kitchens have become a refuge from life's troubles as well as a wonderful obsession. And each has provided a means by which family and friends are nurtured and nourished by two very wise women through a challenging year which sees each forced to make significant and life-changing decisions.

About this title

About the Author:

Janice Marriott lives in Wellington, where she works as an author and audio producer of children's songs and voice recordings. Virginia Pawsey lives and works on Double Tops, her family's farm, in the stunning North Canterbury countryside of Hawarden, where they still use horses to muster.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1869508416
• ISBN 13: 9781869508418
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240