The Birthday Book includes the reflections of the beauty of nature, through to thoughts about gardens, friendship, life and love. A selection of short passages for every day of the year, all from the hand of Patience Strong, and all with the power to touch the heart.The Friendship Book contains poems and prose from many sources, ranging from teh Bible and Shakespeare to more recent writers such as Wordsworth, Jane Austen and Patience Strong himself.The Bedside Book includes more of Patience Strong's much loved reading, combined with a selection of quotations from the notebook in which she jotted down the things that appealed to her over the years. A beautiful combination of her own simple but delightful philosophy and well-chosen words from others.