`Woodward's tongue-in-cheek account of finding, making and growing his own little patch of heaven is right on the button, as is his nostalgic, romantic, down-to-earth attitude of make do, mend, maintain and modernise, making a life worth living and a garden worth showing right here at home in the mud' The Times ... Read more `Very few people are brave enough to live a realisable dream and then to write about it in such a way that readers feel deep laughter and admiration...Anthony Woodward, once an award winning advertising copywriter and `Country Life' columnist, has done just that...an energetic tale of an innocent abroad' Country Life `His progress is told with side-splitting brilliance that only a truly gifted writer can achieve...not one dull page...his lovely epilogue is up there with Proust as a shimmering example of classic remembrance of things past' Daily Mail `I set out determined to dislike the book, and I completely failed to do so. There can be no higher praise than that...I read it in one sitting, at first from malice, then for enjoyment' Byron Rogers, Spectator `Hilarious...uplifting...The Garden in the Clouds is much more than a horticultural tale. It is testimony to what can be achieved with a dash of imagination and a very British refusal to admit defeat' Sara Wheeler, Mail on Sunday Show Less