Window-box Allotment

For my Mother,

And the Encouragers,

With love:

Mary Barnard

Richard Brown

Shane Butler

Jo Christian, my publisher

Helen MacTaggart

Alma Marianos

Eva Papastratis, my literary agent at Curtis Brown

Kate and Anthony Rogers

Carolina Rawlings

John and Judy Russell

Ann Schlee

And the Tuesday friends

Frances Lincoln Limited

74-77 White Lion Street

London

N1 9PF

Window-box Allotment

First published by Ebury Press 2001

This revised, expanded and illustrated digital edition published by Frances Lincoln Limited 2013

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