Consider the Lily - Softcover

Buchan, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143035819 ISBN 13: 9780143035817

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2005

Synopsis

Elizabeth Buchan garnered both praise and a loyal readership with the bestselling Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman and The Good Wife Strikes Back. Now her many new fans can discover one of her beloved early novels.

It is the summer of 1929. The Hinton Dysart estate is dying from lack of money, and Kit Dysart, the heir, sees no way out. Then, at his sister's wedding, he meets the vibrant Daisy Chudleigh and her cousin, the heiress Matty Verrall. In love with Daisy but troubled by his family's decline, Kit chooses to marry Matty, though neither Kit nor Daisy is able to forget the other. When Matty, growing increasingly unhappy in her troubled, empty marriage, decides to re-create the estate's garden, she discovers solace and a gift of which she never dreamed. A glorious fusion of love and gardening, Consider the Lily is a classic and poignant novel of love, loss, and, ultimately, a new flowering between the two world wars.

About this title

Review:

"An excellent story... strong imaginative power... wonderful sense of atmosphere." --Joanna Trollope

"An old-fashioned novel in the best sense of the word." --Chicago Tribune

"A perfect novel for whiling away a leisurely weekend." --The Sunday Times, London

From the Author:

Why I wrote this book
I wanted to explore a theme of personal loss, set against a backdrop of national loss i.e. the decades after the Great War. It is the story of a wife whose unhappiness drives her to take up gardening – and thus triggers a process of healing and new understanding which, in the end, brings her what she craves. It was also an opportunity to touch on the intriguing aspects of flowers and plants, particularly the ones that we prize greatly, the lily and the rose.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143035819
• ISBN 13: 9780143035817
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 469