Ms Helena Attlee

Helena has spent much of her career following Italy's landscapes into books, from Italian Gardens: A Cultural History (2006) onward. She spent a season living on Etna's slopes, tracing how its volcanic soil shapes the citrus, pistachios and relationships that would become The Fire in the Mountain: Sicily, Etna and Her People (2026) — the latest work from the award-winning author of The Land Where Lemons Grow (2015) and Lev's Violin (2022). From that book grew Gardens of Sicily, the tour we developed with her.