The Lost Garden (Beeler Large Print Series) - Hardcover
Leaving London to grow food for the war effort, Gwen discovers a mysterious lost garden and the story of a love that becomes her own.
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. Reading group guide included.
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About the Author:
Helen Humphreys is the author of Afterimage and Leaving Earth, both chosen as Notable Books by the New York Times. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.
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A beautiful evocation of love and loss....Subtle and deeply affecting....Rich and satisfying. (Minneapolis Star-Tribune )
A beautiful evocation of love and loss....Subtle and deeply affecting....Rich and satisfying. -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
A beautiful novel with substance. (Jessica Teisch - Bookmarks )
A beautiful novel with substance. -- Bookmarks, Jessica Teisch, 1 April 2003
A finely wrought novel....What brings Gwen to life and makes this novel work is Humphreys's meticulous, lucid prose. (Margot Livesey - New York Times Book Review )
A finely wrought novel....What brings Gwen to life and makes this novel work is Humphreys's meticulous, lucid prose. -- Margot Livesey, New York Times Book Review
A graceful, poetic novel of love and loss in England during World War II. (Lee Milazzo - Dallas Morning News )
A graceful, poetic novel of love and loss in England during World War II. -- Dallas Morning News, Lee Milazzo, 23 March 2003
A story of longing, life and death the stuff all great gardens are made of. -- Morning Star-Telegram, Catherine Newton, 12 July 2003
A story of longing, life and death—the stuff all great gardens are made of. (Catherine Newton - Morning Star-Telegram )
Humphreys has a poet's eye, and the story is full of startling images that linger in the mind. (Lisa Michaels )
Humphreys has a poet's eye, and the story is full of startling images that linger in the mind. -- Lisa Michaels
Humphreys's affecting third novel never fails to couple the realistic with the ideal, the historical with the timeless. (Matthew Batt - San Francisco Chronicle )
Humphreys's affecting third novel never fails to couple the realistic with the ideal, the historical with the timeless. -- Matthew Batt, San Francisco Chronicle
Luminous....a stunningly beautiful little gem that lingers in the memory like the heady scent of a damask rose. (Karen Campbell - Boston Globe )
Multi-layered in its themes with an undercurrent of wartime passion and danger...unforgettable. (Judy Gaither and Emily Gaither - The Democrat )
Multi-layered in its themes with an undercurrent of wartime passion and danger...unforgettable. -- The Democrat, Judy Gaither and Emily Gaither, 14 January 2003
This is a book to read again and again. -- Nancy Goodwin, author of A Year in our Gardens
This is a book to read again and again. —Nancy Goodwin, author of A Year in our Gardens (Nancy Goodwin )
This novel...remains with the reader long after the last page is turned, and it feels like an evening walk through a pungent, private garden. (Beth Kephart - Book )
Those who, as children, loved The Secret Garden will hear its echo in The Lost Garden....[D]elicate, moving . -- Rosellen Brown
Those who, as children, loved The Secret Garden will hear its echo in The Lost Garden....[D]elicate, moving. (Rosellen Brown )
A beautiful evocation of love and loss....Subtle and deeply affecting....Rich and satisfying. -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
A beautiful novel with substance. (Jessica Teisch - Bookmarks )
A beautiful novel with substance. -- Bookmarks, Jessica Teisch, 1 April 2003
A finely wrought novel....What brings Gwen to life and makes this novel work is Humphreys's meticulous, lucid prose. (Margot Livesey - New York Times Book Review )
A finely wrought novel....What brings Gwen to life and makes this novel work is Humphreys's meticulous, lucid prose. -- Margot Livesey, New York Times Book Review
A graceful, poetic novel of love and loss in England during World War II. (Lee Milazzo - Dallas Morning News )
A graceful, poetic novel of love and loss in England during World War II. -- Dallas Morning News, Lee Milazzo, 23 March 2003
A story of longing, life and death the stuff all great gardens are made of. -- Morning Star-Telegram, Catherine Newton, 12 July 2003
A story of longing, life and death—the stuff all great gardens are made of. (Catherine Newton - Morning Star-Telegram )
Humphreys has a poet's eye, and the story is full of startling images that linger in the mind. (Lisa Michaels )
Humphreys has a poet's eye, and the story is full of startling images that linger in the mind. -- Lisa Michaels
Humphreys's affecting third novel never fails to couple the realistic with the ideal, the historical with the timeless. (Matthew Batt - San Francisco Chronicle )
Humphreys's affecting third novel never fails to couple the realistic with the ideal, the historical with the timeless. -- Matthew Batt, San Francisco Chronicle
Luminous....a stunningly beautiful little gem that lingers in the memory like the heady scent of a damask rose. (Karen Campbell - Boston Globe )
Multi-layered in its themes with an undercurrent of wartime passion and danger...unforgettable. (Judy Gaither and Emily Gaither - The Democrat )
Multi-layered in its themes with an undercurrent of wartime passion and danger...unforgettable. -- The Democrat, Judy Gaither and Emily Gaither, 14 January 2003
This is a book to read again and again. -- Nancy Goodwin, author of A Year in our Gardens
This is a book to read again and again. —Nancy Goodwin, author of A Year in our Gardens (Nancy Goodwin )
This novel...remains with the reader long after the last page is turned, and it feels like an evening walk through a pungent, private garden. (Beth Kephart - Book )
Those who, as children, loved The Secret Garden will hear its echo in The Lost Garden....[D]elicate, moving . -- Rosellen Brown
Those who, as children, loved The Secret Garden will hear its echo in The Lost Garden....[D]elicate, moving. (Rosellen Brown )
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- PublisherThomas t Beeler
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1574905023
- ISBN 13 9781574905021
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages166
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