Mirabel Osler

In years gone by, the traveller in France could rely on coming across a restaurant where the tables were ready-laid with heavy cotton napkins, a caraf

All consuming and witty look at one woman's garden

Intends to take readers beyond her own garden, offering encouragement to gardeners, especially novices, to ignore books and try whatever appeals to th

A host of vividly caught characters are here: Mirabel's extrovert, free-spirited mother Phyllis; Aylmer Vallance, who with extraordinary love letters

The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After) is an existential meditation on grief, the kind which pins you down and minimizes you. The first half of the c