![]() ![]() There’s a trio of heroic rebel flamingos named Fluffy, Princess and Tim, fighting evil armoured lizards. The plot is more or less a wacky picaresque adventure story, zipping about the universe at a fast pace, with Hort pointing a finger to open portals to new places, never knowing where you’re going to end up next. As in Dr Who Penelope becomes Hort’s ‘companion,’ and we learn that he’s had other companions before, is dashingly charming in his green lace-up shoes, and has a Timelord-esque control over space and time. It has the light, comic sensibility of Douglas Adams or Dr Who. Greensmith is a very British novel, infused with a humorous sense of absurdity, puncturing the pompousness that often comes with sci-fi. Penelope joins the Horticulturalist on a dimension-hopping space adventure, leaving her daughter Lily and her ex-husband Graham back on earth, trying to survive the plague. ![]() He thinks it could hold the key to stopping a terrible plague, which turns vegetation into mush, from sweeping the universe. ![]() One day she receives an unexpected visitor: the charming Horticulturalist, who wants to see her collection. Penelope Greensmith, a divorced, cardigan-wearing, lonely bio-librarian, is responsible for a vast seed bank made possible by the mysterious Vice she inherited from her father. ![]()
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