Gardening and Writing About Sex

This week – starting Monday 14th July – my novel The Orchid House is on a Kindle Countdown deal – which means it’s available at a discounted price. If you haven’t read it – now might be the time, but be warned it is sexually explicit.

For my thoughts on writing about sex you might like to read this previous post  which attracted a good deal of interest first time around. Perhaps that’s not surprising, after all, writing about sex is one of the hardest things a writer does.

If you love romantic fiction with a darker undertow, gardening and garden history then the Orchid House will please you. There’s a lot of (very good) sex in the book too – and it takes real talent to write about sex well. Gardening, when you think about it, is all about sex – breeding plants, fertilising seeds, earth, nurturing fruit and flower. I have to say that this is one of the most erotic novels I’ve read for a while. From the steamy tropical ambience of Sri Lanka to the hot-houses of Trescombe in England, the reader is treated to sensual prose unfolding a plot that is both tragic and compelling.- Writer, Poet and Biographer Kathleen Jones