Behind the Privet Hedge

"""A fine new book . . . it shows how the ubiquity of the surburban garden has had to be achieved in the face of planning opposition and how gardening managed to grow into an obsession for millions of people.""--Laurie Taylor, BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed ""Gilson's book is a charming and unexpected glimpse into how gardening took root as an obsession for millions, full of suburban heroes and villains, revolutions and conformity.""--John Grindrod, author of 'Iconicon: A Journey around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain' ""If Behind the Privet Hedge were simply a life of a professional gardener, it would be interesting enough . . . but this book is also a vivid picture of landscape architecture as it developed in the middle years of the century.""-- ""Daily Telegraph"""