Three of Patience Strong's most treasured and enduring anthologies of daily readings are brought together in one volume. The Birthday Book Reflections on 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 Poems and prose from many sources, ranging from the Bible and Shakespeare to Wordsworth, Jane Austen and Patience Strong herself. The Bedside Book More of Patience Strong's much loved readings, 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.