Sasha Swire

Sasha Swire was raised and educated in west Cornwall, where her father, Sir John Nott, was MP for theSt Ives constituency. She was a journalist on national and regional publications and in Asia before working as her husband Hugo Swire’s political researcher from 2001 to 2019.

In Edgeland, she escapes the confines of Westminster to walk the northern stretch of the South West Coast Path. Starting at Minehead in Somerset, she follows the well-trodden path to Land’sEnd in Cornwall, walking it in sections over a decade-long period, returning each year like a migratory bird.
The result is an immersive, beguiling and literary exploration of one of the most enigmatic, beautiful and popular coastlines on earth. It is also a contemplative and very personal response to a story about our English shore from pre-Celtic times to the present day; of the upheaval of rocks; of astonishing botany; of pilgrimage and customs; of the exploitation of resources and of dangers to come.