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Title: The Lost Garden: A Novel by Helen Humphreys ISBN: 0393051838 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 14 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful
Comment: Helen Humphreys' The Lost Garden is a beautiful little gem of a novel, a quick and wonderful read about one woman's perfect moment and time and how it quickly eluded her. Gwen Davis is a lonely woman in the early days of World War II in London when she volunteers to lead a group of women in a war-effort farming experiment on an abadoned estate in the British countryside. She is devastated to leave London, devastated by the war and yet her experiences away from London turn out to be the most rewarding of her life. She finally forms a meaningful friendship and begins to fall in love with one of the Canadian soldiers briefly stationed at the estate. Gwen reflects on the nature of love and happiness, both in her life and in the lives of those around her. This is an excellent, if short, rewarding novel. Enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Longing and Love
Comment: I rarely cry when I read anymore. But I cried almost through the whole last chapter. This is a beautiful book of love lost, memory captured and the beauty of gardens. I recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent piece of art
Comment: Helen Humphreys is nothing less than a superb story-teller. The tone of this W.W.II drama is lyrical, wistful and bold, and her characters bend and sway in the nostalgia she so openly releases. It is narrated by Gwen Davis a single 30-something horticulturist who joins the war effort by volunteering to lead a group of girls in growing potatoes on a deserted estate in the English countryside. Used to working in a solitary lab environment, Gwen has to face her shyness and lack of self-confidence as she forms her relationships with the girls in her crew. Her amateur gardeners are young and energetic and would rather be flirting with the soldiers who are also stationed at the estate while awaiting deployment. One of the girls, however, is different... Jane. Since Jane's fiancé has been declared missing in action she's been slowing fading away, just barely holding onto that fragile thread of hope. Jane and Gwen befriend one another, as well as two of the soldiers staying in the estate house. Then Gwen finds the best companion of all... a secret garden hidden within the grounds. With her knowledge of horticulture and some research into the inhabitants of the estate, Gwen beings to piece together the story the garden has to tell... and finds that it is telling her story as well.
If someone would've told me that I'd learn quite a lot about gardening techniques while reading this book, I might have passed it up, because I wouldn't have realized that there is a beautiful and sensitive language gardens can speak. I think any reader who enjoys creative expression will find they can relate to this story. Humphreys delivers her tale with perfect timing, swiftly wrapping-up after the climax, yet leaving just enough loose threads to keep you thinking about the characters long after the last page has been turned.
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Title: The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason ISBN: 0375414657 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble ISBN: 0151007403 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 11 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor ISBN: 0670031542 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Afterimage : A Novel by Helen Humphreys ISBN: 0312420641 Publisher: Picador Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott ISBN: 0374121230 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 12 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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