Books

Author and journalist Martin Kirby has written four books  – the latest, Mother’s Garden – The Growing Years is due out in October 2010. He is also a columnist for the Eastern Daily Press and Yorkshire Post in England and Catalonia Today in Spain.

Count The Petals Of The Moon Daisy was published in 2007 and is now film screenplay project. Martin is working with Eye Film and Television on the story, with news expected this summer on development funding.
It is a story of two women, separated by a century and an ocean, whose lives weave closer and closer until they touch. It about the healing power of nature and music, of self-discovery and coming to terms with loss. Set in America and England, it reaches to the roots of English-American ancestry as violin virtuoso Jessica Healey finds herself on a journey into the past.

No Going Back: Journey to Mother’s Garden is the story of one family’s journey to find space, time and fulfilment; of their struggle to survive and the fruits of their adventures on a mountain farm in Catalonia, Spain. Hilarious and honest, it has been translated into Dutch, Portuguese and Catalan – vital reading for all who dream of stepping off the beaten track.

Mother’s Garden – The Growing Years, the long-awaited (!) sequel to No Going Back – Journey to Mother’s Garden, will be published in October 2010. Covering the years 2003 to 2009 it tells as candidly and comically as the first book how Martin and his partner Maggie Whitman grow creakier and a little wiser, and how their children Ella and Joe Joe free-range on the farm away from the full glare of commercialism, stepping ever closer to adulthood.

Martin, for eight years a deputy editor of the Eastern Daily Press in East Anglia, England,  is also the author of Albion – Story of the Norfolk Trading Wherry, and co-author of Norfolk Century.

To view or order (or in the case of Mother’s Garden – The Growing Years, email to pre-order) one of Martin’s books please click on the image below which will take you directly to our Amazon store (this will take you away from the Mother’s Garden website).

Readers’ Comments about Count The Petals Of The Moon Daisy:

An incredible book- shining with love for Norfolk and the Broads. The intelligence expressed behind the writing makes the reader become absorbed into the characters, scene, architecture and weather. One lives the book in the strangest way.
Mrs T.E Parris, Spain

Having read his first book,No Going Back, i really didn’t know what to expect, this guy is a clever writer,building the story and having a good central character ( Jess ).
The descriptions of the land and area around norfolk take you deeper and give you an understanding of how things were.
The characters are interesting.
A lovely read and i would recommend you to read it, it would make a great film!!!!!!!!!!!
Mrs Skellet, Leeds, UK

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