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When Alan kept school at fifteen little was expected of him. An 'O' level in art work is not the most obvious passport to success, however in the ancient greenhouses of the neighborhood nursery Mrs T's little lad found his religious home, learning his trade and the strange ways of human aspect.
But the comfort and familiarity of his home in the Yorkshire Dales would soon be left out as he journeyed south to college and then to Kew Landscapes where he encountered rare plants gathered by Captain Cook and a different assortment of eccentrics in the world's most well-known garden.
Spells as a educator and editor implemented, until fate needed a side when he got a job on BBC's Nationwide as their gardening presenter. His childhood imagine inheriting the mantle of gardening god Percy Thrower was starting to come true...
From the first faltering steps in radio and television set, to a job in broadcasting and writing, Knave of Spades is a wonderfully warm and self-deprecatingly genuine memoir. Alan Titchmarsh shows us just why he is becoming not only our most liked gardener, but a favorite copy writer and broadcaster too.
