{"product_id":"mr-darwins-gardener-by-kristina-carlson","title":"'Mr. Darwin's Gardener' by Kristina Carlson","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"345\" data-end=\"791\"\u003eSet in an English village after the publication of Darwin’s \u003cem data-start=\"405\" data-end=\"431\"\u003eOn the Origin of Species\u003c\/em\u003e, the novel centres on Thomas Davies, Darwin’s gardener, who has lost his wife and lives at the edge of village life with his children.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"345\" data-end=\"791\"\u003eAround him, the village observes, mutters, judges, mythologises, and misreads. This technically historical is built of everything but formality. It is a chorus of gossip, superstition, religion, grief, science, class tension, and rural fear. The pressure is not the great man of history but the shockwave around him: what happens when ordinary people are forced to live beside an idea that unsettles their old arrangements of God, nature, morality, illness, death, and human importance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1329\" data-end=\"1689\"\u003eA strange, spare, atmospheric book about intellectual change at ground level — not in universities or salons, but in gardens, kitchens, sickrooms, church pews and village talk. Good for readers of translated fiction, compact literary novels, Darwin-adjacent historical fiction, rural strangeness, and books that treat gossip as a social nervous system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1717\" data-end=\"1860\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeirene Press paperback, 2013. Translated from Finnish by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah. Supported by English PEN \/ Arts Council England. Good used condition. Light shelf and handling wear; clean, solid reading copy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45168317464659,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-03T113812.286.png?v=1780450832","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/mr-darwins-gardener-by-kristina-carlson","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}