Knot

From the author of the Orange New Writers shortlisted ‘The Book of Fires’, an extraordinary tale of love and science.When Henry Lyte brings his young bride Frances home to his Somerset estate, he hopes she will share in his devotion to the garden – a refuge of fruit trees and flower beds, with a knot of herbs at its heart. Henry is a scholar, and his life’s work is his ‘herbal’ – a book of plants ...