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With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, EPUB eBook

With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed EPUB

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Lynne Truss's first novel, in which she shows herself to be one of the very best comic writers.'It was nobody's fault, this widely held assumption that "Come Into the Garden" had long since sought eternal peace in the great magazine rack in the sky.

Nevertheless, it required strength of character for those intimately acquainted with the title not to take the comments personally.

After all, it was a bit like being dead but not lying down'.Osborne Lonsdale, a down-at-heel journalist, mysteriously attractive to women, writes a regular celebrity interview for 'Come Into the Garden'.

This week his 'Me and My Shed' column will be based on the charming garden outhouse owned by TV sitcom star Angela Farmer.

Unbeknown to Osborne, driving down to Devon to interview Angela in her country retreat, the sleepy magazine has been taken over by new management.

So it happens that Osborne's research trip is interrupted by a trainload of anxious hacks from London - Lillian the fluffy blonde secretary, Michelle the sub-editor who has a secret crush on Osborne, and Trent Carmichael, crime novelist and bestselling author of S is for...

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