CELEBRATED actress, television presenter, broadcaster, and best-selling author Caroline Quentin will be returning to this year’s Dulverton Exmoor Literary Festival to talk about her new book ‘Drawn to Nature’.

She was a headline author at the 2024 Dulverton festival with the Sunday Times best-seller ‘Drawn to the Garden’ which she wrote and illustrated to celebrate her lifelong passion for gardening.

Caroline Quentin is the latest major addition to the line-up for this year’s festival which features authors’ talks across four days from Friday to Monday, November 13 to 16.

She will be discussing ‘Drawn to Nature’ with The Times, Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph journalist and columnist Gaby Huddart.

To be published in September, the book invites readers to reconnect with nature in all forms, whether they nurture a sprawling garden, tend a single balcony pot, or keep a few houseplants.

Structured in chapters dedicated to the colours of the natural world, starting with the drama of black and white and running through red, yellow, and on to ‘rainbow’s end’, the book blends gentle storytelling with practical wisdom.

Caroline is a renowned figure in British comedy with lead roles in award-winning British sitcoms including ‘Men Behaving Badly’ and the crime drama ‘Jonathan Creek’.

Aside from her career as an actress, she has had a lifelong passion for nature, wildlife, and gardening in all forms.

She grew up in Reigate, Surrey, but now lives in a farmhouse in Devon, where she grows her own vegetables and paints all manner of flora and fauna.

Festival organiser Ali Pegrum said: “Caroline’s dedicated Instagram account @cqgardens shows her love for gardening and nature in pictures and is extremely popular in its own right.

“From growing rhubarb and kale to making paintings of nature, and walking through birdsong, she chronicles her connection with nature in all its leafy green goodness”.