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Rhapsody in Green - by Charlotte Mendelson (Paperback)

Rhapsody in Green - by  Charlotte Mendelson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A unique celebration of gardening written by an award-winning novelist</b> <p/>Despite the fact that she has only six square metres of grubby urban soil and a few pots, Charlotte Mendelson has a secret life. She is an extreme gardener, an obsessive, an addict. And like all addicts, she wants to spread the joy.<br>Beginning with Late Winter, Charlotte takes the reader through her gardening year, via Wasting Money Wisely (the lure of the seed packet), Thirty-Three Alternatives to Lettuce (the greatest salads don't need bacon or croutons), Tree Envy (dreams of owning a plum tree), and Fantasy (gardening is an unfulfilled fantasy, never disappointing and always a source of perfect, fruitful happiness). <br>Inspiration for city-dwellers and the many people with small spaces to garden. <p/><b>'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.' - <i>Woman & Home</i></b><b><i><br></i></b><b>'A gardening book like no other, this is the author'' love letter to her garden.' - <i>Garden News</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Charlotte Mendelson's</b> first novel, <i>Love in Idleness</i>, was published in 2001. Her second, <i>Daughters of Jerusalem</i> (2003) won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. Her third, <i>When We Were Bad</i> (2007), was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. <i>Almost English</i> (2013), her fourth, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.<br>Charlotte is a columnist for <i>The New Yorker</i>, where she writes about all things gardening in Onward and Upward in the Garden.

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