The Last Garden

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Like many new fiction books written these days, this one uses that tried-and-true (in my opinion, overused) device of telling multiple narratives, from different periods of time, that only come altogether at the very end of the book. A talented artist with a growing reputation for her ambitious work, Venetia Smith has carved out a niche for herself as a garden designer to well-to-do industrialists, solicitors, and bankers looking to show off their wealth with sumptuous country houses. She is determined to make Highbury House a triumph, but the gardens there—and the people she meets—will change her life forever. It comes in low, the October light. It’s citric, forensic, revelatory. It shows you things, up close, with anatomical precision.

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He sees himself again, as a child. Sees himself running. Through deep grass and hazed air, towards the bend of a river. It’s June and a blush suffuses everything, a gentle heat. They say that drowning is peaceful, once you stop struggling. But you stop struggling because drowning makes struggling impossible. It’s not that you surrender.Present day: Emma Lovett, who has dedicated her career to breathing new life into long-neglected gardens, has just been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to restore the gardens of the famed Highbury House estate, designed in 1907 by her hero Venetia Smith. But as Emma dives deeper into the gardens' past, she begins to uncover secrets that have long lain hidden. I’m a custodian still, and I know my duty. I’ll see out my time, tend to my instruments. Maybe there are other gardens, other uses for all this radiance.

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In the present day, Emma Lovett restores forgotten and neglected gardens. She is thrilled to be hired to restore the Highbury House estate gardens, which had been design by Venetia Smith, whose work she so much admires. To restore the gardens to their original state Emma needs to know as much as she can about the gardens' past. The garden of the evening mists”, и за мое щастие, над 100-годишната градина в измисленото имение Хайбъри постепенно разкри доста тайни. And the avid greens, the immaculate tissues of blossom. With more to come still. More life, more light. But Eve already knew a thing or two. First, she knew this was no kind of life. Made from a rib? To be some dork's helpmeet? Yeah, no. Not feeling it.I loved the full character cast. Ms. Kelly has outdone herself with a full array of fascinating characters. I loved Venetia, Emma, Diana, and even Stella (as hard as it was at some points to do so). There were so many more characters within each story to even mention, however each one was vital, complex, realistic, and fit perfectly. I loved how each woman was different in personality and place, yet all had similarities that the reader discovered throughout the book. Excellent.