The Gardener

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With her father out of work and mother earning less and less money from her dressmaking, Lydia Grace is one day sent to live with her Uncle Jim in a big gray city. The bestselling author of Miss Garnet's Angel and The Librarian , Vickers has been a Jungian therapist and her novels have always featured personal growth and transformation. Now available in paperback, The Extraordinary Gardener is a charming story about the importance of nature, teaching us that if we work hard enough our dreams really can come true.

Hass and Margot, two middle-aged sisters, have a fractious relationship, but have clubbed together with their inheritances and bought a large cottage in an olde-timey English village.

Yes, thank you", said Helen, and hurried out before the woman on the bed should begin to lament again. As in every good story - all children can easily identify with the main character in this book Lydia Grace, as authored by Sarah Stewart. An accessible ode to gardening sprinkled with Tamsin Westhorpe’s favourite plants, timely reminders and accounts of the twists and turns of planting through the seasons. It can’t be a coincidence that Vickers refers to Lolly Willowes at some point, so I was expecting some witchery, but sadly it never came to much.

It is a novel whose ethical concern is inextricable from the context of the pandemic during which it was writtenIn 1625 Francis Bacon described gardens as “the purest of human pleasures”.As we reach the conclusion here is the ‘you’ again and we think … hang on, have I missed something…? In this follow-up to the bestselling Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori takes another trip across the globe, bringing to life the science of plants by revealing how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore. She had no interest in any aftermath, national or personal, of the war, but, moving at an immense distance, she sat on various relief committees and held strong views - she heard herself delivering them - about the site of the proposed village War Memorial. Naturally, as the economy starts to recover in May 1936, Lydia Grace informs her parents: "I saw Uncle Jim almost smile today.