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A new edition, with new material, of this hugely popular romp through British gardening from the stone-age to today. Thoroughly engaging, immensely successful, beautifully packaged.
Jenny Uglow writes on literature, art, and social history. Her books include award-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth and Thomas Bewick, as well as a study of Sarah Losh, a surprising Victorian architect and visionary,and group studies including The Lunar Men and the panoramic In These Times- Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815. She is now writing on Edward Lear. Jenny lives in Canterbury, and has four grown up children and seven grandchildren. She was created an OBE in 2008, and was Chair of the Royal Society of Literature 2014-2016.
The book charts gardening right up to the present day, looking at
the spike in demand for allotments and the current boom in
naturalistic gardening. This isn’t a dry historical reference book,
it’s filled with interesting anecdotes and asides that bring all
the eras to life
*English Garden*
Uglow's account of a national obsession is a delight from beginning
to end
*The Observer*
This book will be a joy for any gardener
*The Independent*
The biographer of Gaskell and Hogarth now takes us into the garden,
where plants glow and miniature landscapes unfold at the touch of
her easy prose
*Sunday Telegraph*
Enchanting, stirringly evocative and fascinating
*Daily Mail*
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