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From the best-selling author of The Tuscan Child and the Her Royal Spyness series comes a beautiful, heart-rending novel of a woman’s love and sacrifice set during the First World War. The tender tale is exquisitely performed by Saskia Maarleveld, a narrator with over 325 audiobooks—including multiple AudioFile Earphones Award-winners—to her name.

As the Great War continues to take a devastating toll on the globe, Emily Bryce meets Robbie, a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot who is set to be deployed to the frontlines. After a whirlwind romance, the two fall in love and marry. After Robbie ships out, Emily volunteers as a land girl, tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. Not long after, however, Emily receives devastating news; Robbie has been killed in the line of duty. Grief-stricken, Emily—who has just discovered that she is pregnant—turns to an unexpected source of hope. In the pages of a long-forgotten journal from a medicine woman who devoted her life to the gardens she now tends, she finds not only comfort and solace—but perhaps a path to her destiny.

©2019 Janet Quin-Harkin (P)2019 Audible, Inc. 20th Century Cosy Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Women's Fiction World War I Heartfelt War
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Herbalism, wartime, heartbreak, love, pulling together, kinship and faith. This one truly does have it all. I’ve loved the story as it unfolds, brilliant twist reveal towards the end. Definitely looking at more from Rhys Bowen now.

Historic & Beautiful

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Following,in my opinion,a slightly weak start the storyline was great fun.
I found myself getting involved with the characters wishing to shout at the vicars wife and the spiteful cook. I would have liked to learn if Justin and Emily got together

Victory

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Brilliant book, did not see the twist in the ending coming. Interesting tale of the plight of the main characters and how they overcame it in their own right in a soft way rather than an angry one in an era where girls were viewed as chattels by men! High praise for the gentle, soft way in which Rhys Bowen handled this storyline. Will definitely buy more of her books. The narrator Saskia Maarleveld on the audible version was excellent and will look out for more of her narrations on Audible books. Recommended.

Brilliant

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perfect narrator, great storyline it was something different from the usual. the ending caught me by surprise

what a lovely listen.

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I have enjoyed all Rhys Bowen's stories and this one was no different. Very light and easy to listen to with a decent knowledge of history. Samaria Maarleveld is a wonderful narrator for this story with a very good ear for accents and even a fairly convincing Irish accent that is usually the Waterloo of so many narrators. Her reading was very convincing and made the story flow well.

Lovely easy listen

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