Plot 29 : a memoir

Jenkins, Allan (Food writer)2017

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'Plot 29' is on a London allotment site where people come together to grow. It's just that sometimes what Allan Jenkins grows there, along with marigolds and sorrel, is solace. As a young boy in 1960s Plymouth, Allan Jenkins and his brother, Christopher, were rescued form their care home and fostered by an elderly couple. There, the brothers started to grow flowers in their riverside cottage. They found a new life with their new mum and dad. Over the course of a year, Allan digs deeper into his past, seeking to learn more about his absent parents. Examining the truths and untruths that he's been told, he discovers the secrets to why the two boys were in care. What emerges is a vivid portrait of the violence and neglect that lay at the heart of the family. A beautifully written, haunting memoir.