Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 'An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses.' --Margaret Atwood 'A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.' --Claire Messud, Harper's 'Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way.' --Vogue A lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded by his passion for the natural world 'In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.' So be-gins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on George Orwell's passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected
