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  • By: Leah Fleming
  • Narrated by: Nano Nagle
  • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Summary

From the acclaimed author of The Captain's Daughter and The Postcard, a powerful historical novel about one garden across 1,000 years and the women who found solace within its walls.

Iris Bagshott strolls down the paths of her ancient garden, close to Lichfield in the heart of England, wondering if it is time to sell her house and land for development. She is unaware that around every corner myriad family secrets from the past unfold. From a Saxon clearing to a monastery, Tudor dwelling to the present day, this sacred plot has nurtured her ancestors. Generations of Bagshott women have found refuge and solace tending it through years of plague, civil war and beyond. This is their story.
©2019 Leah Fleming (P)2019 Head of Zeus
Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Contemporary
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In the heart of the garden

I have read several Leah Fleming books so I was looking forward to this one. I have not finished it. It is boring and dull. No interesting characters and the reading was monotonous.

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