The lost garden

Description:

It's Spring 1941 and London is being destroyed by the Blitz. Gwen Davis, a young horticulturist, leaves her beloved city for the Devon countryside where she encounters two people who will change her life forever: Raley, a Canadian officer awaiting posting to the front; and Jane, a frail but free spirit whose fiancé is missing in action.

subjects: Gardening,  Women gardeners,  Canadians,  Fiction,  Administration of estates,  Women's Land Army (Great Britain),  World War, 1939-1945,  Female friendship,  Soldiers,  Young women,  Gardens,  Fiction, historical,  England, fiction,  Large type books,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, historical, general

Places: England