MISS WILLMOTTS GHOSTS (PB)

Ellen Ann Willmott was a remarkable woman whose achievements in horticulture, botany, landscape architecture, photography and more, should have made her one of the most well-known trailblazers of her age. Yet even within her lifetime, she became known as a bitter, cantankerous and eccentric miser, and her reputation has been forever stained by the image of her maliciously seeding other people's gardens with thorns. This biography explores gossip, sisters, rivalry, squandered inheritance, forbidden love, bad marriages and, at the heart of it all, extraordinary talent.