The Rain Tree

A Memoir

By: Mirabel Osler

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Paperback | 10 May 2012 | Edition Number 1

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A host of vividly caught characters are here: Mirabel''s extrovert, free-spirited mother Phyllis; Aylmer Vallance, who with extraordinary love letters would rescue her mother from a twilight life; Stella Bowen, Phyllis''s 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 mother''s love affairs.

Turning closer to the present - to new friendships, the paring away of previous assumptions and conventions and the serendipities of chance acquaintance - we encounter Michael, Mirabel''s late husband, who''s barbaric public-school childhood contrasted so dramatically with Mirabel''s 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 Osler''s meditation on the profound pleasures of writing, gardens, travel and food is both graceful and deeply affecting.

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A wonderful book ... generous with excitement and adventures and love. Reading it, I felt glad to be alive Xandra Bingley, author of Bertie, May and Mrs Fish Quirky, touching, wayward, sensuous ... An unforgettable journey of the senses. Irresistible Sir Roy Strong Her book everywhere celebrates happiness, amounting to a litany of sensuous joys: lists and speculations, observations and memories, much for her great grand children, but also for us, and then for Mirabel herself. It is full of darting wit and wry quirky wisdom... a prose often casually gorgeous and is absolutely unlike anyone else. She is a rebel and a rule breaker, always her own person. You can detect none of the usual professional garden-writer's know all smartness in her evocations of what is it like to create a garden. She is refreshingly witty about her ignorance and mistakes, eloquent about failure Independent

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