Description
This word-perfect, heartbreaking novel is set in early 1941 in Britain when the war seems endless and, perhaps, hopeless. London is on fire from the Blitz, and a young woman gardener named Gwen Davis flees from the burning city for the Devon countryside. She has volunteered for the Land Army, and is to be in charge of a group of young girls who will be trained to plant food crops on an old country estate where the gardens have fallen into ruin. Also on the estate, waiting to be posted, is a regiment of Canadian soldiers. For three months, the young women and men will form attachments, living in a temporary rural escape. No one will be more changed by the stay than Gwen. She will inspire the girls to restore the estate gardens, fall in love with a soldier, find her first deep friendship, and bring a lost garden, created for a great love, back to life. While doing so, she will finally come to know herself and a life worth living.
Author: Helen Humphreys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/17/2003
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.34w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9780393324914
ISBN10: 0393324915
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Romance | Historical | General
- Fiction | Historical | World War II
- Fiction | Literary