Four Hedges

Author: Leighton, Clare, Leighton, Clare

England

Published on 31 December 2010 by Little Toller Books in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Nature Classics Library' series.

Paperback / softback | 172 pages, 85 b/w engravings
214 x 160 x 16 | 282g

Clare Leighton was one of the finest engravers of the twentieth century. In the 1930s, when she settled in the countryside with her long-term partner, the political journalist Henry Noel Brailsford, she turned her creativity to the land. Gardening became her passion. Her obsession. This is the story of the garden she carved from meadowland deep in the Chiltern Hills. 'Phrases and images fill you with delight...This is the most honest writing I've ever read'. (Carol Klein).