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Rhapsody in Green: A Writer, an Obsession, a Laughably Small Excuse for a Vegetable Garden
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This book is ideal for avid gardeners and those fascinated by urban growing, especially readers who appreciate humour and storytelling alongside gardening advice. It's perfect for lovers of food cultivation, vegetable gardening, and those seeking inspiration to transform even the smallest outdoor spaces into productive gardens.
A unique celebration of gardening written by an award-winning novelist.
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Excellent book. Nigella Lawson
Charming, inspiring, uplifting... pure lovely. Marian Keyes
Read Rhapsody in Green. A novelist's beautiful, useful essays about her tiny garden. India Knight
Glorious...for anyone who loves fruit, vegetables, herbs and language. It makes you see them with new eyes. Diana Henry
A witty account of 'extreme allotmenteering' for all obsessive gardeners Mail on Sunday
An extremely entertaining and inspiring story of one woman's passionate transformation of a small, irregular shaped urban garden into a bountiful source of food. Woman & Home
A 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. Garden News
This 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. The Simple Things
Gardening 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.
Novelist 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.
This 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.
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Praised for its charm and inspiration, the book is described as 'excellent' by Nigella Lawson and 'charming, inspiring, uplifting... pure lovely' by Marian Keyes. India Knight calls it 'a novelist's beautiful, useful essays about her tiny garden,' while Diana Henry appreciates how it reveals fruit, vegetables, and herbs in a new light. The Mail on Sunday highlights it as a 'witty account of extreme allotmenteering,' and Woman & Home finds it 'extremely entertaining and inspiring.' Garden News notes it as 'a gardening book like no other,' full of warm, witty anecdotes, and The Simple Things suggests it inspires even window box gardeners to be more productive.
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ISBN: 9780857839473
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 March 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Kyle Books
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 215g
Pages: 240
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About the Author
Charlotte Mendelson's first novel, Love in Idleness, was published in 2001. Her second, Daughters of Jerusalem (2003) won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. Her third, When We Were Bad (2007), was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Almost English (2013), her fourth, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
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