Apple Orchard

'An absorbing love letter to the English apple tree...lyrical and joyful' - TLS

'A delightful book' - Sunday Times

Shortlisted for the André Simon Food and Drink Book Award 2016
A Radio 4 Book of the Week

'Wonderful, revelatory ... very moving' - Sheila Dillon, BBC Radio 4

'Hisability to laugh at himself, openness to wonder and willingness to gowherever the search takes him make Brown an engaging writer and The Apple Orchard an entertaining journey' - Mail on Sunday

Takingus through the seasons in England's apple-growing heartlands, thismagical book uncovers the stories and folklore of our most familiarfruit.

'An orchard is not a field.It's not a forest or acopse.It couldn'toccur naturally; it's definitely cultivated.Butan orchard doesn'toverride the natural order: it enhances it, dressesit up. Itdemonstrates that man and nature together can - justoccasionally -create something more beautiful and (literally) morefruitful thaneither could alone. The vivid brightness of the ladentrees, studdedwith jewels, stirs some deep race memory and makes theheart leap.Hereis bounty, and excitement.'

Reviews

A delightful book