Sarah Raven is a writer, cook, broadcaster and teacher. She runs a mail order company, Sarah Raven's Kitchen and Garden, and holds cooking, growing and gardening courses at her school at Perch Hill in East Sussex. With her husband, the writer Adam Nicolson, and family, she divides her time between there and Sissinghurst in Kent.
Dripping in gardening romance ... [Raven] delights in Vita's chatty writing ... Read it. You'll be delighted by its charm English Garden The line between cherishing the best of the past and celebrating the future is a fine one, but Raven treads it with exemplary energy and tact in this lovely book, with its delightful black-and-white archive photographs of Vita and Harold, and its ravishing colour plates of the garden in its glory Daily Mail A joy ... [Sarah Raven's book is] about beauty, enjoyment, celebration of making - everything that good gardening ought to be. Its atmosphere is as consoling as sun-warmed brick. It is fastidiously illustrated by beautiful photographs old and new. Raven believes, justifiably, that a dynamic past can instruct the present and her book is a bid to see that Vita's thinking is not stilled ... Best of all is the dashing abundance of plant ideas ... Sarah Raven proves a most graceful chaperone, chiming in, amplifying ... This book and Vita's ideas will inspire and, if you are even half a gardener, have you reaching for your gardening gloves with new purpose -- Kate Kellaway Observer