At the Edge of the Orchard – Tracy Chevalier

I’m loving Tracy Chevalier’s stories of American pioneer life. At the Edge of the Orchard starts in the Goodenough’s farm in Ohio’s Black Swamp and comes to an end amidst the sequoias of California’s Sierra Nevada.

En route we meet frontier folk hero John Appleseed and English seed agent William Lobb who brings the giant redwoods and sequioas to the UK.

The Pitmaston Pineapple apple is constant.

Author’s website: At the Edge of the Orchard – Tracy Chevalier

Guardian review: At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier – Stephanie Merritt, 6 March 2016