Garden in a Valley

Garden in a Valley is the delightful account of a young Jean Galbraith living in the Australian countryside of the 1920s and 1930s.

The book is full of the love of gardening and the joy of living. Beloved roses, sunbursts of perennials, the abundance of fruit and vegetables, treasured books and most of all the inspiration of other people: all these are pictured in the setting she called the garden in a valley.

The twentieth century’s demand for energy has dramatically changed the Latrobe Valley in Victoria, leaving its rolling green paddocks interwoven with vast open-cut coal mines and great power stations. But what Jean Galbraith writes of is perennial – the book is as delightful, as important, as it was when it first appeared in 1939.