Literary Lunch with Caroline Quentin

Your ticket includes a copy of the book (RRP £20), which would make a perfect Christmas gift, plus a seasonal one course meal from the FarmED Cafe, followed by coffee and a sweet treat. 

Caroline is well-known for her lead role in award-winning British sitcom Men Behaving Badly and Jonathan Creek and she now lives in a country farmhouse in Devon, where she grows her own vegetables, and has a large orchard, shared on her instagram account (@cqgardens).  She believes that gardening should be fun and enjoyable, filled with the simple pleasures of planning, planting, harvesting and cooking. It is also a meditative and restorative pastime, and a great way to lift your spirits.

Written in a warm and engaging way that reflects her personality, Caroline tells stories of growing chillies from seed in her greenhouse, berating the thieving blackbirds in her fruit cage, and swimming in her pond singing to dragonflies and flag irises.  She has come to realise that gardening, just like life, is a series of happy accidents, unplanned successes, and baffling and frustrating failures.

Illustrated by Caroline herself, this gorgeous book mixes personal stories of her life and experiences in the garden, with practical tips, recipes for food and drink. As she likes to misquote Dorothy Parker: ‘Take to horticulture, it’s cheaper than a shrink’.