With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed

Name: With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Lynne Truss
ISBN: 9781602831841

Author: Lynne Truss

Narrator: Robert Bathurst

Unabridged: 5 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 07/15/2008

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

Here, in Lynne Truss' first novel, we meet Osborne Lonsdale, a down-at-heel journalist, mysteriously attractive to women, who writes a regular celebrity interview for Come Into the Garden. This week his "Me and My Shed" column will be based on the charming garden outhouse owned by TV sitcom star Angela Farmer. Unbeknownst to Osborne, driving down to Devon to interview Angela in her country retreat, the sleepy magazine has been taken over by new management. And so Osborne's research trip is interrupted by a trainload of anxious hacks from London—Lillian the fluffy blonde secretary, Michelle the sub-editor who has a secret crush on Osborne, and Trent Carmichael, crime novelist and bestselling author of S is for Secateurs!

About Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, which sold nearly one million copies and won Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. A novelist and journalist, she is also the author of numerous radio comedy dramas.

About Robert Bathurst

Robert Bathurst, an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator, won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Male Narrator in 2020. He is an English actor who played David Marsden in five seasons of the series Cold Feet and the title role in My Dad’s the Prime Minister. In addition to his other television credits—which include The Stepfather, White Teeth, The Safe House, Goodbye, Mr. Steadman, and Hornblower—he has also appeared many times on stage in such productions as The Three Sisters, Hedda Gabler, and Alarms and Excursions.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lois on April 19, 2009

Highly amusing, especially since I am a freelance magazine writer and editor. Terrific characters. I listened to an audio book; the British narrator was great (except that his American characters sounded more like Australians). Couldn't stop listening--I dragged the book with me from car to kitchen an......more

Goodreads review by Jonkers on August 10, 2015

An enjoyable and amusing read with some genuinely funny parts. Quite farcical with lots of misunderstandings and confusion. Whilst not in the same league as P.G Wodehouse (but then, who is?) I would recommend this as a fun, light read.......more

Goodreads review by Madiha on July 28, 2017

Lynne Truss loves words and loves crafting them into gorgeous sentences that conjure up characters and plot .That's my first impression of the book. A fun and light read, where the real pleasure is the actual prose( I hope that makes sense) .......more

Goodreads review by Claire on April 14, 2020

This was actually laugh-out-loud funny in a few places, and was a merry chase of a book. On the other hand, it had rather more profanity than I would have liked, and some of the characters were rather unpleasant. None the less, I enjoyed the majority of it, and will read more by Lynne Truss. As a te......more

Goodreads review by Susan on March 30, 2024

I have read a few other Lynn Truss books and enjoyed them OK, but this was just too ‘rollicking’ for me. I wasn’t engaged by the plot, now and then I was interested in a scene and thought I was getting hooked but the silliness just was not holding me. I skimmed, hoping to get that drawn in feeling b......more

Quotes

“Sex, violence, murder, and psychoanalysis lurk in the garden shed—a breezy, rude, pleasurable alternative to cutting the grass.” Observer (London)

“A slapstick comedy with more twists than a stick of licorice…Robert Bathurst keeps up with the wild pace of the plot and gives each of the characters a unique voice and accent.” AudioFile