The Garden in the Clouds: From Derelict Small-Holding to Private Paradise
(By Antony Woodward)
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To Antony Woodward it was obvious. You move there with your family and make it a garden - one which, naturally, must get into the hallowed Yellow Book of outstanding gardens.
Moving, through-provoking and brilliantly funny, this memoir of landscape, childhood and wily mountain sheep grapples with that fundamental question: what is gardening really about?
‘Side-splitting brilliance … up there with Proust as a shimmering example of classic remembrance of things past’ Val Hennessy, Daily Mail
‘Uplifting…hilarious…testimony to what can be achieved with a dash of imagination and a very British refusal to admit defeat.’ Sara Wheeler, Mail on Sunday
‘I set out determined to dislike the book, and I completely failed to do so. There can be no higher praise than that’ Byron Rogers, Spectator
‘Woodward’s tongue-in-cheek account of finding, making and growing his own little patch of heaven is right on the button’ The Times
‘The funniest book I have read this year; and touchingly brave...the very best of self-deprecating British humour’ Sir Alistair Horne
‘Hilariously told…perfect bedtime reading: all aspiration and perspiration’ Best Gardening Books, Stephen Anderton, The Times
‘Very few people are brave enough to live a realisable dream and then to write about it in such a way that readers feel deep laughter and admiration. Antony Woodward has done just that’ Rory Knight Bruce, Country Life
‘Laugh-out-loud comedy…A book for anyone intrigued by the impetus behind the making of gardens, and for anyone who just enjoys a really good read.’ Lia Leendertz, Gardens Illustrated
‘A tale for all gardeners battling seemingly insuperable odds, the lesson being: “The trick of garden making, as of life, is not to moan about what you haven’t got, but to make the most of what you have.”’ Oxford Times”
