{"title":"Charlotte Mendelson","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharlotte Mendelson’s works blend a charming wit with a heartfelt exploration of everyday life, often rooted in the pleasures and challenges of home and garden. Her writing offers a delightful mix of personal reflection and humour, inviting readers into thoughtful and often amusing meditations on nature and domestic spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a style that is both intimate and engaging, Mendelson captures the nuances of gardening and the subtle obsessions it can inspire. Her books provide a refreshing perspective on how we connect with our surroundings, illuminating the small joys found in cultivating both land and life.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"rhapsody-in-green-a-writer-an-obsession-a-laughably-small-excuse-for-a-vegetable-garden-by-charlotte-mendelson-9780857839473","title":"Rhapsody in Green: A Writer, an Obsession, a Laughably Small Excuse for a Vegetable Garden","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcellent book.\u003c\/strong\u003e Nigella Lawson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharming, inspiring, uplifting... pure lovely.\u003c\/strong\u003e Marian Keyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead \u003ci\u003eRhapsody in Green\u003c\/i\u003e. A novelist's beautiful, useful essays about her tiny garden.\u003c\/strong\u003e India Knight\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGlorious...for anyone who loves fruit, vegetables, herbs and language. It makes you see them with new eyes.\u003c\/strong\u003e Diana Henry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA witty account of 'extreme allotmenteering' for all obsessive gardeners\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn extremely entertaining and inspiring story of one woman's passionate transformation of a small, irregular shaped urban garden into a bountiful source of food.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003eWoman \u0026amp; Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA gardening book like no other, this is the author's 'love letter' to her garden. She relays warm and witty stories about the trials and tribulations throughout her gardening year.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003eGarden News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis inspirational, funny book, written by someone who hankers after a homesteader's lifestyle, will make you look at even your window box in a new, more productive light.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Simple Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGardening is not a hobby but a passion: a mess of excitement and compulsion and urgency and desire. Those who practise it are botanists, evangelists, freedom fighters, midwives and saboteurs; we kill; we bleed. No, I can't drop everything to come in for dinner; it's a matter of life and death out here.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNovelist Charlotte Mendelson has a secret life. Despite owning only six square metres of urban soil and a few pots, she is an extreme gardener; the creator of a tiny but bountiful edible jungle. And like all enthusiasts, she will not rest until you share her obsession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of an amateur gardener's journey to addiction: her attempts to buy lion dung from London Zoo and to build her own cold frame; her disinhibited composting and creative approach to design; her prejudices (roses, purple flowers, people with orchards); and her passions: quinces, salad-leaves, herbs, Japanese greens and ancient British apples. It is a story of where fantasy meets reality, of the slow onset of a consuming love and, most of all, of how gardening, however peculiar, can save your life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427548512492,"sku":"9780857839473","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780857839473.jpg?v=1774767440"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/charlotte-mendelson.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}