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Very Good. Size: 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo); Hardcover. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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1408815486. First edition SIGNED by the author to the title page. 260 pages illustrated with black & white and colour photographs. Fine decorated cloth hard back. "A host of vividly caught characters are here: MirabelĘs extrovert, free-spirited mother Phyllis; Aylmer Vallance, who with extraordinary love letters would rescue her mother from a twilight life; Stella Bowen, PhyllisĘs lifelong friend and fellow student under Ezra Pound, their introduction to the London literati, notably Ford Madox Ford. Throughout Mirabel's childhood, it was Stella who would be the one fast colour amid her mercurial motherĘs love affairs. And turning closer to the present ū to new friendships, the paring away of previous assumptions and conventions and the serendipities of chance acquaintance ū we encounter Michael, MirabelĘs late husband, whose barbaric public-school childhood contrasted so dramatically with MirabelĘs own, affectionate and carefree; whose repressed father so adored roses; their childhood meeting; their delight in their children and beloved Shropshire garden, a character in its own right, full of the joy of the unexpected. Celebrated author of A Gentle Plea for Chaos, Mirabel OslerĘs meditation on the profound pleasures of writing, gardens, travel and food is both graceful and deeply affecting. "