Paradise Under Glass: An Amateur Creates a Conservatory Garden

Paradise Under Glass is a witty and absorbing memoir about one womans unlikely desire to build, stock, and tend a small conservatory in her suburban Maryland home. Ruth Kassingers wonderful story of the unique way she chose to cope with the profound changes in her lifea book that will delight readers of Eat, Pray, Love and I Feel Bad About My Neckis interwoven with the fascinating history of conservatories from the Renaissance orangeries to the glass palaces of Kew.