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Consider The Lily

By: Elizabeth Buchan
Narrated by: Anna Cordell
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When a choice must be made between love and duty, solace comes in unexpected forms...

Summer, 1929. The Hinton Dysart estate is dying from lack of money, and Kit Dysart, the heir, sees no way out. Then, at his sister's wedding, he meets the vibrant Daisy Chudleigh and her cousin, the heiress Matty Verrall. In love with Daisy but troubled by his family's decline, Kit chooses to marry Matty, though neither Kit nor Daisy is able to forget the other.

When Matty, growing increasingly unhappy in her troubled, empty marriage, decides to re-create the estate's garden, she discovers solace and a gift of which she never dreamt.

A haunting, passionate story played out between three people, Consider the Lily is also a poignant and beautiful novel of England between the wars that propels the reader into its own rich and nostalgic world.©1993 Elizabeth Buchan (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd 20th Century Historical Historical Fiction Romance Women's Fiction
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This was a lot of listening, the reader became monotone when she narrated the story, but was slightly better for the different characters voices. I found this different to other books by Elizabeth Buchan, there were some unnecessary parts which waffled, maybe with a different narrator would have been more interesting. Overall the storyline was good, I found strength in Mattie's character, with everything she endured, highlighting how one person's decision can set in motion changes which have far reaching effects. The ending was a bit rushed after all the build up. Loved the garden detail woven throughout.

Bittersweet but enjoyable.

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Lots of better books by the same author. It lacked passion, the characters were to passive.

Not too much maybe the history

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