The Ghost In The Garden

Jude Piesse

The Mount in Shrewsbury was the site of some of Darwin’s earliest experiments. It was where, under the tutelage of his green-fingered mother and sisters, and the house’s gardeners, he first examined the reproductive life of flowers, collected birds’ eggs and began to note down the ideas that would lead to his ground-breaking theory of evolution. In this book, Jude Piesse uncovers the lost histories that inspired Darwin and how his legacy lives on.

Scribe UK, £8.79.