Just Being Neighbourly Part 2

Animals & Nature

Flower-Patch Among the Hills

by Flora KLICKMANN (1867 - 1958)

After poor health forced Klickmann to move from London to the country, she began writing a series of sketches for The Girl's Own Paper and in 1916 she published the first of a series of books based on them. Her cottage, known in her books as "Rosemary Cottage", had an idyllic country garden and spectacular views over the River Wye and Tintern Abbey. The book, The Flower-Patch Among the Hills, was highly successful; a reprint was needed after two weeks. In later years, she wrote six more Flower Patch books, the stories growing to involve her household and the local people, combining nature description, anecdote, autobiography, religion, and humour. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Listen next episodes of Flower-Patch Among the Hills:
In Mildmay Hospital -- An Interlude , Just a Little Piece of Griskin , Merely to be Prepared , The Funeral of the Hero , The Little People of the Streams , The Return to the Flower-Patch , When the Surgeon Crossed the Hills , Where the Road Led Over the Hills