Fiction for gardeners
We asked writer Alice Vincent to choose ten works of fiction for gardeners to lose themselves in this summer. Set against a backdrop of landscapes both curated and wild, her picks range from a spell-binding tale of the search for identity on a tropical Caribbean island to an epic 19th-century journey to discover the flora and fauna of far-flung lands…
THE GARDENER
by Salley Vickers
Penguin Books, £9.99 ISBN 978-0241991176
Former Jungian psychotherapist Salley Vickers is a keen gardener and folds the language of gardens and plants alongside her artfully drawn characters. , her most recent novel, puts the long-neglected garden of a country escape at the heart of the story. In the fictional Shropshire village of Hope Wenlock, heartbroken and bereaved Halcyon Days, a questioning woman in her forties, finds redemption and an unlikely friendship when she tackles a tumbledown cottage and garden she owns with her sister. The sisters bicker and seethe as if they were still children, but as the novel progresses the garden gives them
