Voltaire's Garden

<p>Voltaire's Garden is a memoir of creating a sustainable lifestyle back-to-earth style on a fifteen-acre cattle paddock in an idyllic pocket of southeast Australia made famous by the bushfires of New Year's Eve 2019.</p><p>Award-winning author Isobel Blackthorn introduces readers to the wondrous countryside of Cobargo Valley where in 2005 she bought a parcel of land with spectacular views and built a large villa called Voltaire's Garden and surrounded it with swathes of luscious gardens.</p><p>With glorious descriptions of gardening cooking and an exquisite Australian landscape Voltaire's Garden will inspire you to reflect on the values formed through a deep connection with the land. Composed in evocative prose Blackthorn lays bare the hardships the resilience and many a hilarious moment in what is a feel-good and at times poignant read.</p>