Jennifer Potter is the author of three novels and three works of non-fiction, Secret Gardens, Lost Gardens and, most recently, Strange Blooms, which was described by Jenny Uglow in the Sunday Times as 'a tour de force' and by Jane Stevenson in the Daily Telegraph as 'a wonderful book'. She reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at King's College London.
'Lavish, lushly illustrated... Ambitious... richly kaleidoscopic... Jennifer Potter has succeeded in uncovering just why the rose has insinuated itself so tenaciously into the consciousness of every age and corner of the world.' Kate Colquhoun, Sunday Times