Mister sir croley is a keen gardener and has an enviable collection of house plants in his mayfair flat. We decided to make him green fingered in a very specific way because in the late seventies in ates, you don't care about it so much. Do we all need a temporary escape from the world sometimes? And do you that this is part of the reason why your gene of writing is so popular? I think we needn't escape. But i also don't necessarily think that the tag of escapist fiction is a particularly useful one. There is nothing that you can have taken that if you read some of this fiction, you are not changed. A