Unveiling the Untold Journey: Clare Cooper Marcus’s Radical Balancing Act of Academia, Motherhood, and Gardening
Reviewed by Audrey Shipp
In the posthumously published autobiographical memoir Groundbreaking: My Unmapped Path as an Academic, Mother, and Gardener (New Village Press; May 2026) by landscape architect and educator Clare Cooper Marcus, the blasting of the ground caused by bombs in World War II spurs the breaking of ground to grow food and other plants.
Clare Cooper Marcus is five years old in 1940 when Nazi Germany initiates the Blitz and begins targeting bombs on her birth city of London, England. The war propels her father to abandon his job at Rothschild Bank, volunteer for the army, and leave his wife, young Clare, and her brother behind. The banker Rothschild, in turn, invites mom and the kids and other families to live on his Ascott estate in Buckinghamshire, outside central London.
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