What Fiction are you reading this week, August 29, 2021?

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21. I just started "The Last Garden in England" by Julia Kelly.

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We recently watched the documentary "The Gardener." From IMDB:

Frank Cabot's Les Quatre Vents, aka Cabot Garden, a magnificent private garden in the Charlevoix region near Quebec City.

OMG, what a gorgeous garden! Or gardens, I should say. So when I saw this book, I checked it out.

It's about an amazing (& huge!) English garden, first planted in the early 1900s. There are 5 POV characters, all women. One is the original planner/planter of the garden. The 2021 storyline is a woman who is hired to fix the garden, so to speak. It hasn't been properly maintained in years. The other three characters appear during the WWII timeline, where the estate with the garden has been commandeered for use as as a hospital. I'm a little more than a quarter of the way through it. It hasn't really captured me yet, I think because of the multiple storylines, but I love the garden parts so much I'll keep going.



on edit: Oh no. It's starting to feel like a romance novel.