The Sea Garden
Author(s): Deborah Lawrenson
Present day. On a lush Mediterranean island off the French coast, Ellie has accepted a commission to restore an abandoned garden. It seems idyllic, but the longer Ellie spends at the house and garden, the more she senses darkness, and a lingering evil that seems to haunt her. Second World War. Two very different women have their lives irrevocably changed: Iris, a junior intelligence officer in London and Marthe, a blind girl who works in the lavender fields of Provence and is slowly drawn into the heart of the Resistance. As secret messages are passed in scent and planes land by moonlight, danger comes ever closer...
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Following on from her TV Book Club success with THE LANTERN, Deborah Lawrenson returns to the south of France with another captivating story of wartime love, secrets and bravery.
THE SEA GARDEN weaves a double spell, and honestly, it got me right from the start. Lawrenson steeps her story of the invisible heroes of the French Resistance crossing borders - and here, crossing time - deep in the eerie beauty of the South of France. The result is a marvellous strange fruit: think Graham Greene served up with a dash of Poe Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress
Deborah Lawrenson spent her childhood moving around the world from Kuwait to China, Belgium, Luxembourg and Singapore. She is the author of six previous novels, including THE ART OF FALLING chosen for the prestigious WH SMITH FRESH TALENT promotion. She lives between Kent and a crumbling hamlet in Provence, France, which is the atmospheric setting for THE LANTERN. Find out more at www.deborah-lawrenson.co.uk
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- : 0.294
- : 28 August 2014
- : 198mm X 132mm X 24mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 28 October 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Deborah Lawrenson
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.92
- : 320
