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The Victory Garden

By: Rhys Bowen
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
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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 Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Women's Fiction World War I Feel-Good Heartfelt War
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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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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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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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Interestingly set in WW1. Neat ending twist.
However I didn't enjoy the narrator's voice.
overall a well constructed & engaging story almost detailed by the narrator.

lovely story

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another superbly written and narrated book from Rhys Bowen. I'm hooked and look forward to many more of her books

superb

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