Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941), cousin of Katherine Mansfield, was born in Australia In her first and most successful novel she creates and immortalises that place so perennially dear to an Englishwoman's heart - her garden Through Elizabeth's eyes we watch the seasons, each bringing new events as friends and neighbours come and go There, too, is the Man of Wrath, her upright Teutonic husband, inspiring in her a mixture of irritation, affection and irreverence