A memoir by Beth Lynch. After moving to Switzerland feeling lonely and out of place she realises that she needs to get her hands dirty if she wants to feel at home. She sets about doing this in the best way she knows – by caring for a garden and growing things.

Her travels across the country searching for a garden, through meadows and mountain paths where familiar garden plants run wild, to the rugged hills of the Swiss Jura where she starts to plant her paradise. Her book is a memoir about carrying her garden within her through loss, dislocation and relocation, about finding green space of her own and the sense of wellbeing this brings, and the limits of paradise in a peopled world. Her book powerfully explores how, by nurturing a corner of the natural world, we nurture ourselves.