Mystery
A landscape architect restores historic English gardens while uncovering a family's 1940s wartime romance and a sister's disappearance.
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A landscape architect restores historic English gardens while uncovering a family's 1940s wartime romance and a sister's disappearance.
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A landscape architect unearths the tangled history of a once-celebrated English garden--and all its mysteries--in a captivating novel by the author of The Last Secret of Lily Adams . Julia Esdaile is hired to restore the historic gardens at Havenworth Manor--the grounds of which are now an abandoned snarl of bramble and weeds--to their original splendor. For the enigmatic lady of the manor, ninety-two-year-old Margaret Clarke, the reason for the restoration is the deeply private story of a promi...
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Sexual content
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Central 1940s romance between Irene and RAF officer James; they fall irrevocably in love
Violence & gore
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Background mentions of WWII and RAF service
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Political content
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Characters express disdain for war during WWII era
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Themes of family secrets and a sister's disappearance
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