For the Tradescants, through the upheavals of the Commonwealth and the Restoration, this means consolidating their reputations as the greatest gardeners in the country. In the new world and the old, the established order is breaking down and every family has to find its own way of surviving. John Tradescant the Younger has inherited his fathers unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. John’s plant hunting brings him to live with the native people, and he learns to love and respect their way of life just as it is threatened by the colonial settlers. Sequel to the outstanding historical novel Earthly Joys, and written by the bestselling Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgins Lover.

Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. Philippa Gregory, Earthly Joys (1998) Centring on the great early 17th-century gardener John Tradescant, who had access to court via his patrons Cecil and Buckingham in Gregorys sequel. In this enthralling, freestanding sequel to Earthly Joys, Gregory combines a wealth of gardening.

John Tradescant the Younger has inherited his father’s unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory, 2000, HarperCollins Publishers Limited edition, in English. The sequel to the outstanding historical novel Earthly Joys, by the internationally bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory.Ī brand new recording – available as an unabridged digital audio edition for the first time.