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The Knot Pb

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 and their medicinal properties, intended for those who cannot afford physicians` expensive cures. But life on the edges of the flood plains makes Frances uneasy, and there are strange rumours abroad concerning the death of Henry`s first wife – rumours that can be traced to Henry`s step-mother Joan Young, a grasping woman eager to seize control of the family`s lands. And while Henry cannot tear himself from his studies, he stands the risk of losing everything he loves…