The Possibility of Tenderness is a personal history narrated through the lens of the -grung- and plants. It-s also a people-s history of the land, a family saga, an archival detective story through time. It-s the migration tale of a young scholar who arrives in Britain from rural Jamaica to study at Oxford to achieve -upward social mobility- and who now lives in Roundhay Leeds. Suddenly, amidst his journey of dreams and class aspiration, the plants and people of his native district, Coffee Grove, begin to offer different ways of living, alternative dreams, and the possibility of tenderness and the permission to roam England. Marrying the local and the familial with global history and unfolding as a timely and immersive tale of land, environment, and the world of plants, The Possibility of Tenderness reveals how the history of a tiny rural village in a mountainous region of Jamaica is interlinked with that of modern Britain. And, also what that rural village can teach us about leisure,
