Down the Kitchen Sink

Down the Kitchen Sink has much in common with its famous predecessor Down the Garden Path in which Beverley Nichols described his early forays into the realm of gardening. When he began to write the first he could not prune a rose. When he began to write the second he could not boil an egg. Perhaps this is why both books remain fresh and eminently readable. The phrase kitchen sink may suggest squalor and disillusionment but Beverley Nichols transforms it into a symbol of merriment and adventure. With a new foreword by Roy Dicks and Val Biros charming drawings the Timber Press edition of Down the Kitchen Sink deservedly takes its place among Beverleys classics on gardens homes cats and other friends.