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Frank Lawley was born in Bloxwich, Staffordshire and has been known as Frank for over sixty years. Frank and his wife Marjorie have spent the past four decades rescuing Herterton House near Wallington, a long-abandoned sixteenth century farmhouse, and designing, creating and maintaining around it a new but appropriate country garden. Val Corbett is a freelance photographer based in the Lowther Valley on the eastern fringe of the Lake District. She is well known for her garden and landscape photography which has featured in many books and magazines. Charles Quest-Ritson is a UK-based writer and journalist specialising in horticulture and social history.
Frank and Marjorie Lawley have been making and tending a deeply considered acre of garden for almost 40 years. I am one of the admirers of its striving for unity without repetition and its exceptionally subtle use of shapes and colours. Now Frank has given us a full study of its making. He tells it with unusual clarity and aptness. His book, Herterton House and a New Country Garden, is unmissable, a simple but penetrating account of a home and garden's formation and the Lawleys' gradual realisation of both. -- Robin Lane-Fox Financial Times The book is a delight to read and the gardens are a joy to visit. Start your Christmas shopping early by buying the book - for anyone and everyone who loves gardens. The Journal Written in fresh, often beautifully simple language, which has an emotional resonance that's rare in a garden book. The design is just right for this thoughtful book. This is a gem of a book, destined to become a classic. -- Susie White The English Garden ' A remarkable book..uniquely engaging, should also be read for its wisdom and its poetry. The Lady
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