Catherine Horwood is a social historian with a passion for plants and gardens. Her book, Beth Chatto: A Life with Plants (Pimpernel, 2019), was enthusiastically received. Fergus Garrett called it 'a triumph ... beautifully crafted by an author who has thoroughly researched and understood her subject' (Gardens Illustrated) while the Evening Standard chose it as 'A Gardening Book of the Year', saying it was 'one of the most intimate gardening biographies yet written'.