The Lost Garden
The Lost Garden
Author: Helen Humphreys
Desc: Leaving London to grow food for the war effort Gwen discovers a mysterious lost garden and the story of a love that becomes her own. This word-perfect heartbreaking novel is set in early 1941 in Britain when the war seems endless and perhaps hopeless. London is on fire from the Blitz and a young woman gardener named Gwen Davis flees from the burning city for the Devon countryside. She has volunteered for the Land Army and is to be in charge of a group of young girls who will be trained to plant food crops on an old country estate where the gardens have fallen into ruin. Also on the estate waiting to be posted is a regiment of Canadian soldiers. For three months the young women and men will form attachments living in a temporary rural escape. No one will be more changed by the stay than Gwen. She will inspire the girls to restore the estate gardens fall in love with a soldier find her first deep friendship and bring a lost garden created for a great love back to life. While doing so she will finally come to know herself and a life worth living. Reading group guide included.