The lost garden

By Helen Humphreys

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

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.