The Heart of the Garden, Victoria Connelly
The Heart of the Garden, Victoria Connelly
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The Heart of the Garden

Author: Victoria Connelly

Narrator: Jan Cramer

Unabridged: 8 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/22/2018

Synopsis

Morton Hall, with its beautiful, ruined grounds and its reclusive mistress, Emilia Morton, is full of mysteries. For freelance editor Anne Marie, the wild garden has become a serene and secret refuge from her loveless marriage. The only other regular visitor is Cape, the hall’s part-time gardener, who is forbidden to tend to anything except the magnificent maze or to meet his enigmatic employer.When Emilia dies, Cape and Anne Marie are astonished to find themselves among an unlikely group of villagers named in her strange will. Morton Hall, including its dazzling art collection and once glorious grounds, can belong to the community forever, but only if they work together to bring the garden back to life within a single year.As they try to put their differences aside to restore the tangled grounds, long-buried secrets are unearthed. Can the past be forgiven as hope and new love begin to bloom?

About Victoria Connelly

Victoria Connelly studied English literature at Worcester University, got married in a medieval castle in the Yorkshire Dales and now lives in rural Suffolk with her artist husband, a young springer spaniel and a flock of ex-battery hens.She is the author of two bestselling series, Austen Addicts and The Book Lovers, as well as many other novels and novellas. Her first published novel, Flights of Angels, was made into a film in 2008 by Ziegler Films in Germany. The Runaway Actress was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Comedy Novel award.Ms Connelly loves books, films, walking, historic buildings and animals. If she isn’t at her keyboard writing, she can usually be found in her garden, with either a trowel in her hand or a hen on her lap.Her website is www.victoriaconnelly.com and readers can follow her on Twitter @VictoriaDarcy and on Instagram @VictoriaConnellyAuthor.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy

This is a simple story chosen to read in between chapters of the longer book I was reading describing all of England's charms by Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain. That book is so full of information delivered with great humour, but it is dense with deta......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

Another fabulous book from Victoria Connelly. I really felt as though I got to know Morton Hall and its gardens in great detail. I loved finding out about the gardens, and seeing what Anne Maries and the others would discover in there next as an unlikely group of strangers inherit the Hall and their......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

Who could resist a mysterious maze in the garden, which the owner of the estate insists on cultivating. And when she dies, the town is shocked by her will which creates a hailstorm of controversy. There are delicious twists and tuns in The heart of the Garden, that I won't spoil for readers, but I l......more

Goodreads review by Suze

Emilia Morton is a mystery. She never leaves her house and lets her garden grow wild, except for the maze, which gardener Cape perfectly maintains. Even though Morton Hall is a private property Anne Marie often walks around the gardens. She's unhappily married and her husband and stepdaughters treat......more

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