Description:
Here, in Lynne Truss' first novel, we meet Osborne Lonsdale, a down-at-heel journalist, mysteriously attractive to women, who 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. Unbeknownst to Osborne, driving down to Devon to interview Angela in her country retreat, the sleepy magazine has been taken over by new management. And so 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 Secateurs!
Brief description:
Lynne Truss is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, which has sold nearly one million copies and won Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. A novelist and journalist, Truss is also the author of numerous radio comedy dramas.
Review Quotes:
Sex, violence, murder, and psychoanalysis lurk in the garden shed-a breezy, rude, pleasurable alternative to cutting the grass.
-- "Observer (London)"