Appius and Virginia Pride With no need for a

With no need for a large garden or a big budget

acceptance and purpose seems especially vital at a time when our misuse and misunderstanding of the natural world has brought us to our current climate crisis’ Bernadette Russell

The plot’s quite complex but Gardner is wonderful at milieu

The only writer to inspire jealousy in Virginia Woolf

Appius and Virginia Pride With no need for aA rediscovered work by a lost novelist from the 1930s One of the most inventive novelists of her generation TLS Virginia Hutton embarks upon an experiment. She will take an ape and raise it as a human child. She purchases an infant orangutan and names him Appius. She clothes him, feeds him, and puts him to bed in a cot every night. As Appius grows older, she teaches him to dress himself, to speak, to read, to stand and walk up straight, to eat his