I love Alan Titchmarsh when he's on the telly gardening or on his afternoon chat show, but don't rate him as an author. I didn't like the first part but persevered and it picks up in the middle. But I think he had a number of words to write and found the total was getting a bit close, so tried to bring all the loose ends together and failed miserably. The ending was terribly put together and not believable at all.