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Praise for Philppa Gregory:
‘Subtle and exciting.’ Daily Express
‘Written from instinct, not out of calculation, and it shows.’
Peter Ackroyd, The Times
‘For sheer pace and percussive drama it will take a lot of beating.’ Sunday Times
‘One of Gregory's great strengths as a novelist is her ability to take familiar historical figures and flesh them into living breathing human beings. The Constant Princess is a worthy successor to her previous novels about the Tudors.’ Daily Express
John Tradescant the Younger has inherited his father’s unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles 1, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America. But the virgin land is not uninhabited. John’s plant hunting brings him to live with the native people, and he learns to love and respect their way of life just as it is threatened by the colonial settlers.
In the new world and the old, the established order is breaking down and every family has to find its own way of surviving. For the Tradescants, through the upheavals of the Commonwealth and the Restoration, this means consolidating their reputations as the greatest gardeners in the country.
'”Virgin Earth 'is a brilliant continuation of Gregory’s meticulously researched story of the Tradescant gardening family, begun with such panache in her bestselling 'Earthly Joys' . . . utterly gripping.”
LISA JARDIN, 'The Times'
“Exciting and fascinating”
JESSICA MANN, 'Sunday Telegraph'
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0006511767
- ISBN 13 9780006511762
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