Listen to a sample
Rhapsody in Green
- Author
- Charlotte Mendelson
- Narrator
- Charlotte Mendelson
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 19 September 2024
- Run Time
- 7 hours 19 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
Not available in your country
We don't have the rights to sell this audiobook where you are. If it's already in your library you can still listen to it in My Books.
What to expect
Gardening is not a hobby but a passion: a mess of excitement and compulsion and urgency and desire. Those who practise it are botanists, evangelists, freedom fighters, midwives and saboteurs; we kill; we bleed. No, I can't drop everything to come in for dinner; it's a matter of life and death out here.
Rhapsody in Green is a glorious celebration of the life of an urban gardener, told with the trademark wit and warmth of prize-winning novelist Charlotte Mendelson.
This is not your typical guide to gardening. While listening, you will find no advice on topiary, or strimming, or tending to your greenhouse. But if you are attuned to the subtlety of difference between chicories and radicchios; if you cannot pass a packet of seeds without the desire to empty your bank account; or if you, too, long to one day, someday, own a small but emphatic apple orchard in your not-quite-rectangle, suburban garden . . . this is the audiobook for you.
Related in a series of uproarious vignettes, and narrated by the author herself, Rhapsody in Green is a love song to the joys, and pitfalls, of gardening in all its surprising forms.
'Charming, inspiring, uplifting . . . Pure lovely' – Marian Keyes, bestselling author of My Favourite Mistake
'Glorious . . . for anyone who loves fruit, vegetables, herbs and language. It makes you see them with new eyes' – Diana Henry, food writer and author of From the Oven to the Table
'A witty account of 'extreme allotmenteering' for all obsessive gardeners' – The Mail on Sunday
User Reviews
No reviews yet.
Details
- Author
- Charlotte Mendelson
- Narrator
- Charlotte Mendelson
- Duration
- 7 hours 19 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 September 2024
- ISBN
- 9781035060856
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Organic gardening / Sustainable gardening, Gardening: plants and cultivation guides, Memoirs, Essays
Synopsis
Gardening is not a hobby but a passion: a mess of excitement and compulsion and urgency and desire. Those who practise it are botanists, evangelists, freedom fighters, midwives and saboteurs; we kill; we bleed. No, I can't drop everything to come in for dinner; it's a matter of life and death out here.Rhapsody in Green is a glorious celebration of the life of an urban gardener, told with the trademark wit and warmth of prize-winning novelist Charlotte Mendelson.This is not your typical guide to gardening. While listening, you will find no advice on topiary, or strimming, or tending to your greenhouse. But if you are attuned to the subtlety of difference between chicories and radicchios; if you cannot pass a packet of seeds without the desire to empty your bank account; or if you, too, long to one day, someday, own a small but emphatic apple orchard in your not-quite-rectangle, suburban garden . . . this is the audiobook for you.Related in a series of uproarious vignettes, and narrated by the author herself, Rhapsody in Green is a love song to the joys, and pitfalls, of gardening in all its surprising forms.'Charming, inspiring, uplifting . . . Pure lovely' – Marian Keyes, bestselling author of My Favourite Mistake'Glorious . . . for anyone who loves fruit, vegetables, herbs and language. It makes you see them with new eyes' – Diana Henry, food writer and author of From the Oven to the Table'A witty account of 'extreme allotmenteering' for all obsessive gardeners' – The Mail on Sunday
About xigxag
xigxag is an independent, UK-based audiobook platform and the UK's only B Corp certified audiobook company. We offer nearly 150,000 audiobooks, all with professional human narration. No AI-generated voices. xigxag is rated an Ethical Consumer Best Buy for audiobooks and a top-rated ethical bookshop.
There is no subscription. You buy the audiobooks you want, you own them permanently, and prices start at $13.95. The more you listen over the year, the less you pay per book, and there is always a selection in Listen for Less from $7.95. You can also send audiobooks as gifts using our audiobook gift cards or in-app gifting.
Every audiobook on xigxag has honest reviews covering both the book and the narration, and our community features make it easy to share what you are listening to, discover what others recommend, and find your next listen.
Download or stream on iOS, Android, or in your browser. Browse the full catalogue at xigxag.co.uk.