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The Unfinished Garden

By: Barbara Claypole White
Narrated by: Ana Clements, Paul Heitsch
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A love story about grief, OCD, and dirt

Tilly Silverberg is rebuilding her life with her young son, Isaac, one potted-up plant at a time. Since her husband’s death, gardening has become her livelihood and her salvation. Hiding out in the North Carolina forest, she wants only to be left alone with Isaac and her greenhouse.

New to the area, successful software developer James Nealy needs a garden. On a solitary mission to reclaim his life from irrational obsessions and relentless compulsions, he has a plan: to conquer his greatest fear. Dirt. One glimpse - or two - of Tilly’s garden, and he knows she holds the key. But when he asks her to take him on as a client, she refuses.

After a family emergency pulls Tilly and Isaac back to her native England, she’s quietly happy, because nothing has changed in her childhood village. Or has it? Her first love is unexpectedly single, her mother is scheming, and her best friend is keeping secrets. Then James appears on her doorstep.

Tenuous at first, but gradually taking root, James and Tilly forge an unlikely bond. As they work together to rescue a garden choked by neglect, they unearth each other’s secrets, each other’s fears, each other’s hopes - and maybe, a shared second chance.

©2012 Barbara Claypole White (P)2019 Spoken Realms Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance

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The story is worth a listen, diagnosis of true OCD well covered. However the female narrator is dire, I felt ‘on edge’ the whole time I was listening and almost gave up three times. The pitch of Ana Clements voice was far to high for me and not enough variation of tone.
Shame because it spoilt a reasonable novel

Good understanding of OCD

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This book was a good in sight, as to how it is to live with ocd, to my surprise I really enjoyed it, just goes to show never judge a book by its cover, add to the the narration was really easy to listen too I will be reading more by this author,

Ocd

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I like this author's books.I appreciate the author's grasp on OCD grip on a sufferer's life.

The distracting up lift of the narrator's voice, irritated me throughout.

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What a fantastic listen, unconventional and difficult at times I loved the narration at first I couldn’t work out if Ana’s voice was annoying but fell in love with how she spoke in the end … highly recommended

The best love story ever

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Amazing book .. good listen sums up a life as an ocd person.
Well worth it

Sums it up

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