Botanical Short Stories: Contemporary Writing about Plants and Flowers

These short stories - about all manner of green and growing things - are tender, lyrical, and compelling. Whether real or imagined, familiar or exotic, delicate or potent, the plants and flowers depicted offer insightful meditations into the ways that the lives of plants can become entwined with our own. -- Becky Tipper * writer and reviews editor at The Short Story * The stories are all so very different, some of them being quite compelling and tender featuring an interesting variety of voices and nationalities with a wide range of characters and settings -- Advolly Richmond * Garden writer, historian, and a television presenter, who regularly appears on BBC Gardener's World * A lovely collection of short stories with plants front and centre. If you’re a gardener or plant lover, then this is a book for you. -- Leif Bersweden * Author of Where the Wildflowers Grow and Botanist * This is the first time I have read a fiction collection entirely around the botanical, and editor Emma Timpany has done an impressive job of selecting a range of moving, absorbing, and sometimes surprising stories. * Hortus Journal * Throughout this anthology, interaction with the natural world bring opportunities, new beginnings, and a chance to heal. This book is entertaining and a joy to dip in and out of. * Countryside magazine *