Author Event at The Book Works

Monday, June 4, 7 pm

Aurelia Scott, author of Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening

Twice a year America’s rose lovers cut the prettiest blossoms off their best plants in their backyards and travel to the national rose show, where they lovingly groom their precious blooms for hours in order to contend for highest honor: Queen of Show.
 
Aurelia Scott trails America’s rose enthusiasts as they plan, prepare, and compete, battling high winds, Japanese beetles, and the finicky demands of their precious charges. With all the appeal of Word Freak, Otherwise Normal People celebrates the cultivation of a singular obsession­and, of course, the thrill of victory.

Aurelia Scott's engaging journey into the underbelly of rose exhibitions will leave you wondering , are those hobbyists blooming nuts or simply having more fun than the rest of us?­--William Alexander, author of The $64 Tomato
 
A wonderful bloom: a rose book for rosarians and people who can't tell a bourbon from a tea.­--Mark Obmasckik, author of The Big Year

Aurelia C. Scott, a former consulting rosarian and master gardener, has written for the New York Times, Fine Gardening, Cottage Living, and Yankee, among other publications. This is her first book. She lives in Portland, Maine.