Beth Lynch grew up in Sussex. She holds a doctorate in seventeenth-century literature, and taught English at Cambridge University before training in garden design. For several years she lived and gardened in Switzerland, the subject of her first book Where the Hornbeam Grows (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019). She now lives in Northamptonshire.
A mesmerising, elegiac mix of meditation and memoir * Saga Magazine * Beth Lynch is a gifted writer * Gardens Illustrated * Lynch writes lyrically about the natural world * DAILY MAIL * A beautiful memoir. I loved the literary and historical layerings to the narrative . . . a delightful sense of tension, even jeopardy in places that was impressive -- JAMES CANTON