Eden’s Keepers: The Lives and Gardens of Humphrey Waterfield and Nancy Tennant

Without Nancy Tenant, the exquisite gardens designed by Humphrey Waterfield might never have existed.

Humphrey Waterfield and Nancy Tennant met in 1932 when she was 35 and he was 24. In spite of the age difference between them, and judgemental opinions of society at the time, they became best friends and collaborators for life. They lived near each other, travelled widely together and were the partners in the creation of Hill pasture in Essex ’the most beautiful small garden in England’ and the restoration of Le Clos du Peyronnet in Menton, South of France.

Sarah Barclay is a journalist and author. Born in London, she grew up in Jamaica and the English countryside. After reading English at Edinburgh, she has worked as a journalist, travel writer, editor, stylist, copywriter and author. For sixteen years she had a weekly beauty column for YOU Magazine. She has written for Vogue, Tatler, The Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Saturday Express, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Madame Figaro on a variety of subjects from blue eyeshadow to beekeeping. She is author of Faking It! How to be a Natural Born Beauty. Eden’s Keepers is her second book.