The Water Garden
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Muswell Press
Published:14th Jul '22
Should be back in stock very soon
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Three generations united by family yet torn by a secret held tight for generations. Virginia Prize winner's new novel What happens when illicit desire conflicts with family loyalty? Compelling and vividly atmospheric writing,1944, Italy RAF nurse Maggie Jones and Captain Jim Howard meet and marry in wartime Rome. A blissful whirlwind romance settles into a workaday life back in post-war England. 1980, London Maggie and Jim’s newly graduated daughter Vivien struggles in a dingy flat with her unplanned baby and distant difficult partner, wondering where her life is going. 2010 Surrey Granddaughter Sarah arrives in the Surrey countryside, planning an idyllic upbringing for her boys. Instead she finds herself deeply and illicitly attracted to Finn, a troubled local teenager. And then there is Flavia the Italian girl, who connects them all. Three generations united by family yet torn by a secret held tight for generations.
'Beautifully written and very English in its landscape-love, family-love and garden-love' Fay Weldon. 'I was struck by the remarkably evocative atmosphere... intense yearning and guilty longings infused with a multi-layered past, that makes for a deeply seductive read' Ella Berthoud. 'Creating subtle drama and menace, sensuality and enchantment out of the ordinary... wonderful writing'. Patricia Wastvedt
- Winner of Virginia Prize 2018
ISBN: 9781739966041
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324 pages