Rosamond Richardson is the author of several books about the countryside, including the international bestseller COUNTRY WISDOM. She writes regularly for Britain's biggest-selling bird magazine BIRD WATCHING, and for several years has been a contributor to THE COUNTRYMAN. Familiar to many as author of the Penguin Classic HEDGEROW COOKERY and co-presenter of BBC Two's DISCOVERING HEDGEROWS, she also writes for LANDSCAPE and COUNTRYSIDE magazines. She lives in a small village in East Anglia.