"With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed" by Lynne Truss is a humorous novel revolving around Osborne Lonsdale, a journalist for the struggling gardening magazine "Come Into the Garden." His latest assignment involves interviewing a TV star about her garden shed.
Unbeknownst to Osborne, the magazine is under new, rather chaotic management. His research trip to Devon is hilariously disrupted by a trainload of eccentric colleagues from London, including a ditzy secretary, a lovelorn sub-editor, and a crime novelist obsessed with garden tools.
Through witty prose and farcical situations, Truss satirizes the world of celebrity journalism, the quirks of magazine publishing, and the unexpected chaos that can sprout from one lousy free packet of seed.