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"Fascinating . . . to be eagerly devoured." --Clarissa Dickson-Wright, celebrity chef
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"Makes you fall utterly in love with its subject. . . . Even if you re not interested in flowers, such was Spry s sure, clear vision, irrepressible liveliness, quickness of mind, and humanity, that flowers are neither here nor there." "New York Times StyleMagazine ""
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A riveting new biography - the first for thirty years - of the influential floral artist and founder of the Cordon Bleu cookery school
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