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This book is full of uncontrived surprises. With her exquisite and witty use of language she makes even the most ignorant of gardeners, like me, feel involved and we are swept along by her eloquent enthusiasm. It had me rushing out to look at certain shrubs with new eyes.
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In 1939 Christian Lamb is torn back to England from a comfortable sojourn in France and decides that she must do her bit. Joining the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) mainly on the basis of the tricorne hat (only worn by officers, as she discovers too late), Lamb is plunged into a world of utility and esprit de corps, of radar and parties in submarines.
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This book, disarmingly presented as a miscellany of botanic garden histories reveals so much more than that - it shines a light on an extraordinary period of history and the people who made it.
Tim Smit CBE - Founder of the Eden Project
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