The Possibility of Tenderness - Jason Allen-Paisant

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITINGAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025'The most exquisitely written meditation on family, childhood, and nature' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'An extraordinary, necessary book' ROBERT MACFARLANE'Hold it in your hands and then dream of the green world' MONIQUE ROFFEY'Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect' MARLON JAMES'A masterclass on how to write place, dreams and memory into being' OLIVE SENIORThe Possibility of Tenderness is a personal history narrated through the lens of the ‘grung’ and plants. It’s also a people’s history of the land, a family saga, an archival detective story through time. It’s the migration tale of a young scholar who arrives in Britain from rural Jamaica to study at Oxford to achieve ‘upward social mobility’ and who now lives in Roundhay Leeds. Suddenly, amidst his journey of dreams and class aspiration, the plants and people of his native district, Coffee Grove, begin to offer different ways of living, alternative dreams, and the possibility of tenderness and the permission to roam England.Marrying the local and the familial with global history and unfolding as a timely and immersive tale of land, environment, and the world of plants, The Possibility of Tenderness reveals how the history of a tiny rural village in a mountainous region of Jamaica is interlinked with that of modern Britain. And, also what that rural village can teach us about leisure, land ownership and
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