Rhapsody in Green – Charlotte Mendelson
€15,95
Rhapsody in Green – Charlotte Mendelson
€15,95
Rhapsody in Green – Charlotte Mendelson
‘Gardening is not a hobby but a passion: a mess of excitement and compulsion and urgency and desire. Those who practice 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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Charlotte Mendelson was born in London in 1972 and grew up in Oxford. She has written and reviewed for The Guardian, the TLS, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, and elsewhere.
Mendelson’s first short story, ‘Blood Sugar’ was published in New Writing 7 and twice broadcast on Radio 4. Her first novel, Love in Idleness (2001), was largely written in her lunch breaks at work. Her second novel was Daughters of Jerusalem (2003), and her third novel was When We Were Bad was published in May 2007. Almost English, was published in August 2013.
She lives in London.
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