Tales from Goswell: The Lost Garden (Paperback)

from chrirob

Eleanor is trying to make sense of her world and the people in it since the end of World War I. Since the loss of her brother the people around Eleanor are either despondent, psychologically traumatized, bitter, or mean. Eleanor longs for the carefree, loving days before the onset of war and cann...

from therealjim

It took me awhile before I got the connection between Elanor and Marin. This was a wonderful story of loss and hope found. Both lose someone close, but finally find hope and a future. I recommended this book to my book club, and I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good story of hope in ...

from Lauigl

The Lost Garden is Book 2 in the Tales from Goswell series, and like the first in the series, The Vicar's Wife, it is set in England. (The Vicar's Wife was my favorite book of 2013.)  Although The Lost Garden is book 2 in the series, it can be read as a stand-alone.  I relished The Lost Garden!  ...

from PhDinHorribleness

I haven't read the first book in the series, but had no problem jumping right in to this story. Or, to be more precise, stories. A story happening in 1919 parallels a contemporary story both happening in the same place as two young women discover the joys that can be found in cultivating a walled...

from VanessaCW

An evocative dual timeframe novel set in the Lake District. In the present day Marin Ellis becomes guardian to her half sister, Rebecca, when their father and his wife are killed in a car crash. They leave Hampshire to set up home in Cumbria as a fresh start. In 1919 the vicar's daughter, Eleanor...