Deborah Lawrenson

After sweltering heat, a cool breeze is playing and the days are rolling by. I will try to write something more interesting soon, I promi...

                       

Driving south through France in summer. For a certain kind of British holidaymaker - Francophile, wine-drinking, book-sun-and-food-loving...

  Not a French garden but a very English one, on a midsummer evening in Kent. I was lucky enough to be invited to a gathering at Long B...

  There are many true stories within the pages of The Sea Garden , though all are filtered through the distorting mirror of fiction. Th...

To celebrate the paperback publication today of The Sea Garden , I'm taking you to Céreste, a quiet village at the eastern end of the...

I saw this old box of dried lavender at the Friday market in Bonnieux during a flying visit last month, and I post it here as an article ...