The Walled Garden, Robin Farrar Maass
The Walled Garden, Robin Farrar Maass
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The Walled Garden
A Novel

Author: Robin Farrar Maass

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Unabridged: 10 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/17/2022


Synopsis

American grad student Lucy Silver arrives in England hoping to solve a longstanding literary mystery, write her dissertation, and finish her graduate studies in a blaze of academic glory. But as Lucy starts to piece together the correspondence between her late grandmother and Elizabeth Blackspear, the famous poet and garden writer who’s the subject of Lucy’s dissertation, she discovers puzzling coded references in the letters—and when an elderly English aristocrat with a secret connection to Elizabeth offers Lucy access to a neglected walled garden on his estate, the mystery deepens. As spring turns to summer in Bolton Lacey, Lucy finds herself fighting the Blackspear Gardens’ director’s attempt to deny her access to vital documents in the archives . . . and trying not to fall in love with an attractive Scottish contractor.
In the midst of this turmoil, she stumbles upon an illicit plot to turn the historic gardens into a theme park, and becomes determined to stop it. As she races against time to save the gardens, Lucy’s search for the truth about Elizabeth’s life leads her to a French convent where she uncovers explosive evidence that will change her life and the lives of everyone around her, ultimately revealing a home—and an inheritance—more incredible than anything she could ever have imagined.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lauren on December 19, 2022

A very beautiful read drenched in Flowers and Poetry and lost loves. Since i am a bit of a flower gardener i could follow the descriptions well and appreciate what goes into creating and making a garden. very painterly and a lovely read.......more

Goodreads review by ClairevoyantBooks on May 09, 2022

What a delightful read this was! Part historical fiction, and part mystery, this story is a romantic nature lovers dream. There’s so much vivid imagery of the gardens in this that I could practically smell the flowers. I found Lucy and the cast of characters to be so lovable. I did figure out the mys......more

Goodreads review by Susan on March 17, 2022

Just finished reading tThe Walled Garden, by Robin Farrar Maass. This is the engaging and compelling story of a woman, Lucy, who is working to solve not just the mystery of the famed poet and garden writer Elizabeth Blackspear, but also the mystery of herself. Anyone who loves England, gardens or a......more

Goodreads review by Tracie on August 05, 2022

American Lucy Silver has arrived in England at Bolten Abbey, to work on her dissertation about poet and gardener Elizabeth Blackspear. Her deceased grandmother, Amanda, who raised her was a good friend to Elizabeth even though she worked at the Huntington Gardens in California and Elizabeth was in E......more

Goodreads review by Susan on June 01, 2022

Such a delight, Robin Farrar Maass's debut novel draws us into a life- changing journey for Lucy, a young literary scholar, whose romance for all things British leads her to a circle of intriguing characters with secrets of their own. The world Maass crafts is illuminated by a deep innocence and warm......more