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Biographical note
Alys Fowler is a queer gardener and writer. She has contributed to the Financial Times, Gardens Illustrated, The Observer Food Monthly, The National Geographic and Country Living and used to have a weekly column on gardening for The Guardian Weekend Magazine. Alys trained at Royal Horticultural Society Wisley, The New York Botanical Gardens, and The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and has a masters from UCL in Science, Society and the Environment. She has presented on BBC's Gardeners' World, The Great British Garden Revival, Our Food, and her own six-part series The Edible Garden. She regularly contributes to radio."I felt as if I'd paddled into a new country." The gardening author and <i>Guardian </i>columnist with a distinctive memoir in which she forsakes her garden and takes to paddling Birmingham's little-used canal network in an inflatable kayak. The time and space she allows herself for nature observation--kingfishers, waterlilies, pikes, freshwater mussels and blackberries are all beautifully reflected on--is mirrored by her exploration of her internal self, particularly in the light of leaving her marriage and coming out as gay. An enchanting book which somehow manages to be both gutsy and delightfully soothing.
The Bookseller
In the beautiful memoir Hidden Nature: A Voyage of Discovery, TV gardener Alys Fowler steers a barge around Birmingham's waterways, noting the plants and realising, after 12 years as wife and carer to her husband, that she has fallen in loe=ve with a woman.
Good Housekeeping
<p>This candid book is as much about mapping the heart as it is about mapping the paths of waterways. Lovely.</p>
Simple Things
She writes wonderfully about the species that have carved out a place for themselves amid the discarded shopping trolleys, condom packets and industrial waste
Guardian
Gentle, brave and acutely observant
Woman's Weekly
Hidden Nature is one of the most thrilling things I've read in a long time.
Waterways World
Thoughtful and heartbreakingly honest ...Beautiful.
Press Association