GARDEN PEOPLE: VALERIE FINNIS/ GOLDEN AGE OF GARDENING (PB)

Roald Dahl and his family in their garden at Great Missenden; Nancy Lancaster, society hostess and interior designer, sporting an elegant straw sombrero and snipping delicately at her roses; Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst – these and many other dedicated gardeners are captured here by the discerning eye of photographer and lecturer Valerie Finnis (1924-2006). This book presents a spectacular cast of characters weeding, inspecting, watering and standing proudly by their plants, wearing the clothes and fashions of the day, and epitomizing gardening life and society in the second half of the 20th century.