
Summary
For over five decades Beth Lynch has been drawn back, over and again, to a rocky spot on the North Cornwall coast. Her earliest memories of the cove are bound up with idyllic family holidays; as she grows older, however, her sense of connection with the place grows deeper and more complicated. This slippery interface of land and sea - a site of sheer edges and ledges, peculiar rock formations and eroding, tumbling slate - becomes her childhood refuge from anxiety and school bullying.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474606936 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474606938 |
| Author: | Beth Lynch |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 144mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
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 – JAMES CANTON
Much like reading Where the Hornbeam Grows, I was continually taken aback by the skill and nuance of [Lynch’s] observations - how vividly, beautifully and of course lyrically she conjured both the scenery and atmosphere of every place in the book, not least the cove itself. The Cove also brought freshly and sharply to mind the physical places that have been anchors in my own life, highlighting elements I’d not thought about, as only the good books manage to do … This is a book that stays with you and widens your perception of how people and place intertwine – MATT COLLINS, author * FOREST *
About The Author
Beth Lynch
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. She now lives in Northamptonshire.
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