Through the Garden Gate
Hill, Susan
Angela Barrett (Illustrator)
Published by Guild Publishing, London, 1986
Used/ Hardcover
Through the garden gate lies a world of surprises. Each garden has its character and its season. This joyful little book conjures up the magic of many of them: rose gardens and children's gardens; the trees and lawns of stately homes and the well-manicured flowerbeds of municipal parks; kitchen gardens and the garden in winter; water gardens, wilderness gardens and the intoxicating scents of a garden at night. Together, Susan Hill's lyrical prose and Angela Barrett's lovely paintings combine to delight the senses and to encourage unusual ideas. They inspire you to believe that an orchard or an orange grove can be grown from pips, and at the same time point out that it's a waste of effort to cultivate vegetables that you don't personally enjoy eating. Anyone with a few plant pots and imagination can have his own garden, and this idiosyncratic book unleashes the fantasy in us all and gives us the confidence to be bold.
Item Description
Clean hardback copy with dust jacket and with colour drawings by Angela Barrett. Published by Guild Publishing, London, 1986. Hardcover edition with illustrated dust jacket. Very Good Condition. Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket illustrated by Angela Barrett.
About the author
Susan Hill CBE (born 5 February 1942) is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror and I'm the King of the Castle for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to literature. Hill's novels are written in a descriptive gothic style, especially her ghost story The Woman in Black, which was published in 1983. It was also made into a television film in 1989, and a film by Hammer Film Productions in 2012. She wrote another ghost story with similar ingredients, The Mist in the Mirror in 1992, and a sequel to du Maurier's Rebecca entitled Mrs. De Winter in 1993. In 2004, Hill began a series of crime novels featuring detective Simon Serrailler, entitled The Various Haunts of Men (2004). This was followed by The Pure in Heart (2005), The Risk of Darkness (2006), The Vows of Silence (2009), Shadows in the Street (2010), The Betrayal of Trust (2011), A Question of Identity (2013), and The Soul of Discretion (2014).
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