Lost Garden - Softcover

Humphreys, Helen

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ISBN 10: 1554684749 ISBN 13: 9781554684748

Publisher: Phyllis Bruce Books Perennial, 2009

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It's Spring 1941 and London is being destroyed by the Blitz. Gwen Davis, a young horticulturist, leaves the city for the Devon countryside. In charge of a troop of Land Girls, her job is to rebuild the grounds of a neglected estate. The 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. Gwen meets two people who will change her life. Raley, an officer awaiting posting to the front and Jane, a frail, free spirit whose fianc� is missing in action. Through them, and the beautiful 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.

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Review:

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

About the Author:

Helen Humphreys is the author of 2 previous novels. She is the author of four books of poetry and her work has appeared around the world in many languages. She lives in Kingston, Ontario in Canada.

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