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Wise and winsome, poignant and powerfully moving, The French Gardener combines the savvy of contemporary women's fiction with an old fashioned sensibility steeped in the importance of family and the magical power of love. But, as someone who is constitutionally incapable of not finishing a book, I’d had to add one more thing.
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An encapsulation of the abundance of the region—sunlight to fresh citrus to wild herbs—The Gardener translates the terroir of the French Riviera and its singular way of life.As her own marriage falls apart, she is lost in the romantic story of Ava Lightly, the former owner of the house who had created the beautiful gardens … and left behind a scrapbook telling the story of her intense love affair many years before with that same enigmatic Frenchman tending her gardens. These are Ava’s words, because, on a deeper level, Ava’s spirit is still there in the garden – like nature we don’t die, but shed our bodies like leaves and flower again in spirit. I feel at peace in the woods and gardens of my home, where we have a cottage, and fill up spiritually. It has it all - the curative power of the garden, the growth of characters made possible by caring for the garden, the blossoming of flowers and well as love and personalities. From her family's apartment plants as a child, to her grandmother's garden, to the countryside of France, plants became very familial.
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No one is perfect and I like my characters to be flawed because I want to watch them grow throughout the course of the novel. Gathers information for WordPress by themselves, first party analytics tool about how WP services are used. Their affair belongs in the past, when they shared that magical time, in those beautiful gardens, when they were both young.
My best friend and I plan on spending a few weeks there when we turn 60, that is about 9 years away, but we talk about it all the time, you never know it could be sooner.
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