The Irish Garden

The Story of Yew by Guido Mina di Sospiro (Findhorn Press, Hardback) is the life story, told in the first person, of a two-thousand-year-old female yew, inspired by the ancient yew tree at Muckross Abbey, Killarney. A quirky mixture of history and fantasy, botany and ecology.

Mary Davies
The Irish Garden June 2001

In my sixty years as a publisher and literary agent, I have known many distinguished writers working in many genres of literature. One of the most wholly original is Guido Mina di Sospiro. To say that he is traditional in his approach to the writing of fiction is partially true, in that he is a master of narrative and characterization. To say that he is experimental is also partially true, in that he can produce remarkable flights of fancy which transport the reader from the commonplace to the extraordinary, literally out of the world as we know it.

–Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson