Writing on Skin

When Hermione - eccentric, seventy and returned from India to a ''safe'' life in the Home Counties - encounters Slug street-painting on the pavement, she employs him as assistant gardener. Slug, who has the motto '' Never Grow Old'' tattooed across his head, will soon sort out Gerald, the pin-striped head gardener, soften his ruthless marshalling of her plants and introduce a more effusive atmosph...