The lost garden

By Helen Humphreys

Subjects: Gardens, Administration of estates, Gardening, Female friendship, Soldiers, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Women gardeners, Women's Land Army (Great Britain), Young women, Canadians, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Large type books, England, fiction, New York Times reviewed

Description: It's Spring 1941 and London is being destroyed by the Blitz. Gwen Davis, a young horticulturist, leaves her beloved city for the Devon countryside where she encounters two people who will change her life forever: Raley, a Canadian officer awaiting posting to the front; and Jane, a frail but free spirit whose fiancé is missing in action.