The Savage Garden: Library Edition

from Condorena

Adam Strickland isa Cambridge scholar who has taken a slightly lazy approach to his studies. His professor suggests a trip to Italy to study a famous garden. The professor believes that this will pique Adam's interest.Naturally, there is a secret in this garden, a cipher, and Adam also believes t...

from cameling

I don't think Mark Mills could write a bad book, but having said that, this, in my opinion, is the weakest he has produced thus far. Adam, graduate student, is sent off to a friend of his professor's in Italy to research the architecture and history of a garden in the villa. There he finds that a...

from PilgrimJess

"When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing." Cambridge art history student, Adam Strickland, travels to Tuscany in 1958 to work on the Renaissance garden of the Villa Docci near Florence. The garden was apparently created by a grieving husband in memory of hi...

from indygo88

Overall this wasn't a bad book, but I think it could've been a lot better. The reader of this audio, while competent, just didn't suit the story. Too stuffy, in my opinion. The story itself, the uncovering of a duel "mystery" in Italy, was interesting and engaging, but it seemed there was a lot o...

from phoebesmum

I read this for the same reason, probably, that many others did: ex-Ottakars was selling it for about a pound if you bought £x of other stuff, and why would you say no? It's not bad: young English student in the 50s goes to Italy to write a thesis on a formal garden, uncovers not just one but two...