The Grassling

A lyrical exploration of identity, place, belonging and loss

Spurred on by her father’s declining health and inspired by the history he once wrote of his small Devon village, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett delves through layers of memory, language and natural history to tell a powerful story of how the land shapes us and speaks to us. The Grassling is a book about roots- what it means to belong when the soil beneath our feet is constantly shifting, when the people and places that nurtured us are slipping away.