Where the Hornbeam Grows
A Journey in Search of a Garden
$57.91
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
10 March 2020
Summary
‘Beth Lynch’s subtle and moving book is about the heart-work of finding and making a place for oneself in the world; the effort of putting down roots, the pain of tearing them up again, and how one grows to know another person or another landscape. Horticulture and human feelings twine together here - and what flourishes in the several gardens of this book is, in the end, hope’ ROBERT MACFARLANE
‘I loved Beth Lynch’s tender, wise meditation on grief, home, and the resto…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474606905 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474606903 |
| Author: | Beth Lynch |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 10 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 26mm |
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Beth Lynch’s subtle and moving book is about the heart-work of finding and making a place for oneself in the world; the effort of putting down roots, the pain of tearing them up again, and how one grows to know another person or another landscape. Horticulture and human feelings twine together here - and what flourishes in the several gardens of this book is, in the end, hope
I loved Beth Lynch’s tender, wise meditation on grief, home, and the restorative magic of making a gardenBeth’s prose is as iridescent as the alpine gentians she describes. Her deep love of plants and gardens shines off every pageGorgeously written memoir about inheritance, exile and the healing power of gardening - ‘Editor’s Choice’ - The BooksellerAbout The Author
Beth Lynch
Beth Lynch grew up in rural East Sussex. She read English at Cambridge and went on to complete a doctorate in seventeenth-century literature. For the next decade she worked as a lecturer, creating gardens in her spare time and ultimately training as a garden designer. She then moved unexpectedly to Switzerland, where she lived and gardened for seven years. She has recently returned to the UK. WHERE THE HORNBEAM GROWS is her first book.
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