LED BY THE NOSE: A GARDEN OF SMELLS (PB)

Shaped around the smells of the English countryside, this memoir is full of the wilful personality and the sly humour that characterised the purple-clad old woman in Jenny Joseph’s iconic poem 'Warning'. Joseph's eccentricities permeate each chapter as she flows through the gardening year with its chores and blossoms, frequently leading the reader off the garden path to stop, smell the roses, and ignore the world for a while. A work of delicious diversion and literary flair, horticultural anxieties and countercultural tendencies.