Led By The Nose - A Garden of Smells (Electronic book text)

Not since Laurie Lee or Flora Thompson has a writer captured the smells and moods of the English countryside in the manner of Jenny JosephOCOs Led By The Nose. The nationOCOs favourite poet has tended her OC rural slumOCO in the Cotswolds for decades and her calendar of a year in her garden grows into an evocation of a personality that is uniquely literary, often leading the reader off her garden path with the sharply sly humour of her famous old woman who wears purple. Jenny JosephOCOs memoir of a year in her garden through the sense of smell captures the feel of each month, as well as the flow of the gardening year (the chores to be done, the joy as your garden blossoms). The calendar of a year in her garden displays a personality that is eccentrically loveable, a wilful personality with her own individual outlook on life. The bookOCOs unfolding of Jenny JosephOCOs personality is just one of its many delights. Jenny Joseph focuses on the sense of smell, powerfully evoking memories and images that only a writer of her originality and perception could capture in the full range ofa thoughts and feelings a garden can stir in us. a As one critic has said of Jenny JosephOCOs work: OC Her back garden, like Emily DickinsonOCOs, has room for most of what one can imagine about the world.OCO a Led By The Nose has the unconventional viewpoint, sensual awareness and sharpness of observation to make it a classic of English writing.
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