The Divine Gardener's Handbook: Or What to Do If Your Girlfriend Accidentally Turns Off the Sun: A Novel - Hardcover

by Eli Snow (Author)

DELUXE EDITION--featuring beautiful sprayed edges!

WARNING: MAY CAUSE REBELLION, RADICAL GARDENING, AND ROMANCE.

"Pure chaotic good."
--Julie Leong, USA Today bestselling author of The Teller of Small Fortunes

The Divine Gardener's Handbook is a sapphic dystopian fantasy of botanical sabotage, a questionable god named Saul, and a woman falling for the person most likely to ruin her life.

In a Jenga-stacked megacity where glowing blue flowers hum in the dark and palace doors open into secret worlds, getting a job in the Divine Gardens is almost impossible--like being plucked from obscurity by a carnival claw machine. But Cyprin has spent her whole life trying.

Her only chance is winning the annual flower pageant, dominated for five years by Purcell: brilliant head gardener, unbearable rival, and the one person Cyprin can't stop thinking about. When Cyprin cheats her way to victory, she's thrust into a world of sentient plants, ancient secrets, and a God who turns out to be just some exhausted man with a very good garden.

What begins as rivalry, heated glaring, and increasingly personal acts of warfare spirals into something much more dangerous. As rebellion spreads through the city and the truth beneath the Gardens begins to unravel, Cyprin and Purcell find themselves caught between ambition, obsession, and the terrifying possibility of understanding each other completely.

Even if they burn the whole world down in the process.

The Divine Gardener's Handbook is perfect for readers who like their fantasy weird, heartfelt, and a little unhinged.

Author Biography

Eli Snow (they/them) is a speculative fiction writer, editor, and former medical geneticist, based in rural Australia with their two cats. Their work tends to center queer and neurodivergent characters, as these are the perspectives they experience the world from. When not reading or writing, they should be checked for signs of life. Eli also writes YA Fantasy under the name Elias Cold. Their YA debut, The Duke Steals Hearts, is available now from Page Street Kids.