About the Book: The Wind in the Wall
I have no idea how long I have been incarcerated in these ancient walls . . .
Let me explain how I find myself in this predicament . . .
Set in the hot houses of a stately home in eighteenth century England, a
gardener falls from grace when the Duke sets him the impossible task of growing
prize pineapples fit to show off in high society.
The gardeners star falls further when he is replaced by Mr Amicus, a pineapple
specialist, whom he believes to be a charlatan and a trickster-but nevertheless
miraculously produces