Writer's Garden

<p><b>See inside the gardens where literary giants from Tolstoy to Agatha Christie created some of their finest works in this visually stunning and fascinating book.</b> <p/> Discover the <b>flower gardens vegetable plots landscapes and writing hideaways of 30 great authors</b> - from <b>Louisa May Alcott's 'Orchard House'</b> where she wrote <i>Little Women</i> and<b> Agatha Christie at Greenway</b> to <b>Virginia Woolf at Monk's House</b> and the Massachusetts home of <b>Edith Wharton</b>. <p/><b>Fully illustrated with specially commissioned photography </b>plus archive images and <b>spanning centuries and continents</b> this book visits the homes and gardens that inspired novelists poets and playwrights. It shows how outdoor spaces were important to writers in many different ways and <b>offers insight into the lives and creative processes of beloved authors</b>. <p/> Writers featured include: </p><p><b>Jane Austen</b> in Kent and Hampshire <b>Agatha Christie</b> in Devon <b>Beatrix Potter</b> in the Lake District <b>Thomas Hardy</b> in Dorset <b>Walter Scott</b> and <b>Robert Burns</b> in Scotland <b>William Wordsworth</b> in Cumbria <b>Virginia Woolf</b> and <b>Rudyard Kipling</b> in Sussex <b>Frances Hodgson Burnett</b> in Kent <b>Jack London</b> in California <b>Edward James</b> in Mexico <b>Jean Cocteau</b> and <b>George Sand</b> in France and <b>Goethe</b> in Germany. <p/> This<b> deeply insightful book sheds new light on some of literature's greatest works</b> offers rare glimpses into the lives of these brilliant minds and <b>showcases in stunning full color</b> the gardens in which these writers spent their time. </p>