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It's Spring 1941 and London is being destroyed by the Blitz. Gwen Davis, a young horticulturalist, leaves the city for the Devon countryside. In charge of a troop of landgirls, her job is to rebuild the grounds of a neglected estate to grow food for the home front. The beautiful manor is far removed from the fighting but Gwen has her own battles - as she struggles with her shyness and fear of intimacy to create a community among her girls. Then Gwen meets two people who will change her life forever. Raley, a Canadian officer awaiting posting to the front with his men and Jane, a frail, free spirit whose fiance is missing in action. Through them, and the beautiful 'lost' garden that she stumbles upon, she finds a flowering of a different sort - her own profound capacity for love, even in the face of pain. As the harsh realities of war start to intrude, Gwen finds herself swept up into a world of passion and feeling that she never imagined. Through Raley and Jane, she comes at last to understand the unbelievable joy and unbearable risks of love. THE LOST GARDEN is a triumph of storytelling, a novel so delicately wrought, so exquisite in its rendering of loss that it takes your breath - and your heart - away.
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Published In 2003 : 1st. Edition : 1st. Printing : Full Printing Numbers Listed , 1 - 10 : Bloomsbury Publishing : Light To Faint Face Rubbing To The Dust Wrapper : Otherwise , As New Throughout : Overall , A Very Nice Book :
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A perfect gem of a book. -- Carol Goodman, author of The Lake of Dead Languages
A refreshingly unabashed attempt to locate the indelible but so often secreted nature of love and loss. -- Matthew Batt, San Francisco Chronicle
Shrewdly brief, The Lost Garden embraces the huge and fascinating philosophy of beauty and mourning with devotion and technical discernment. -- Globe and Mail
There is... a gracefulness to her writing, a fluidity that tempts one to read passages aloud just to hear them. -- Toronto Star
[a] beautifully crafted and bittersweet coming-of-age story...Humphreys writes with a poetic sensibility. -- Booklist
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 074756261X
- ISBN 13 9780747562610
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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