A Gull on the Roof : Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm

Author: Derek Tangye

Memoirs

Published on 20 February 2014 by Little, Brown Book Group (Constable) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Minack Chronicles' series.

Paperback | 224 pages
130 x 177 x 15mm | 126g

The first title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flower farm on the coast of Cornwall. From inauspicious beginnings, this book includes tales of the couple's first animals, including Monty the ginger cat, and takes us through trials and tribulations until the arrival of a gull on the roof provides the first augury of better times to come.