TAKE YOUR KEW

An ode to London’s favourite garden

‘P ostcards are tiny windows into lives,’ writes the author Sophie Shillito, whose scrapbook-style hardback presents real postcards that capture Britons’ relationships with Kew in a touching tribute to the historic gardens. From declarations of love to musings on the weather, these hastily scribbled stories form a portrait of human connection, with one another and with nature. Together with Shillito’s own insights on the history and secrets of Kew, this book contains, in its writer’s words, ‘humanity, in all shades and flavours, in messages that are poetic, cryptic, funny and poignant’. meg honigmann ‘Love from Kew’ by Sophie Shillito (£15, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) is out now.