Humphrey Waterfield and Nancy Tennant met in 1932 when she was 35 and he 24. Together they created Hill Pasture ‘the most beautiful small garden in England’ and the restoration of Le Clos du Peyronnet garden in Menton, France. A portrait of a deeply committed ‘non-marriage’ set against two world wars and the transformative power of nature.

Sarah will be interviewed by Susannah Jowitt, a writer and journalist herself, currently for Femail at the Daily Mail, whose claim to historical sisterhood with Sarah is that she wrote MOVERS AND SHAKERS OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND  for the English Heritage gift shop market.