The Garden of Small Beginnings (Hardcover)

from m.belljackson

The Garden of Small Beginnings is perfect Spring and early Summer garden reading. Solid and fun garden advice weaves between chapters. The plot improved once Lili stopped taking a chance on everyone's life while talking on her tucked in cellphone while driving. It would also have been very welcom...

from Dannadee

I won this debut novel by Abbi Waxman from GoodReads. Thank you! It is a gem. After losing her husband tragically 4 years ago and suffering a breakdown as a result, Lillian (Lily) is finally starting to take back her life as mother (of two girls) and sister (who took care of those little girls wh...

from mcelhra

2020 was the year of Abbi Waxman for me – I read three out of her four books! She was new to me and now she's made the list of my favorite authors. The Garden of Small Beginnings is her debut novel. Lilian Girvan is a single mother to two young girls. Her husband was killed three years ago in a ...

from eesti23

"...and then the day came when the risk to remain tight, in a bud, became more painful than the risk it took to blossom... --Elizabeth Appell" "Gardeners love to grow other gardeners." "...potager, which is the type of garden we are creating. Basically, it means a garden in which vegetables, fl...

from booklover915

Lilian Girvan is a thirty-four year old widow and mother of two daughters, Annabel, seven, and Clare, five. Since Lilian's husband, Dan, died almost four earlier, she has rejected the possibility of romance. Her younger sister, Rachel, on the other hand, has had a long string of casual boyfriends...