'Utterly gorgeous and filled with flowers and paintings, secrets and heartbreak ... and always hope'

Veronica Henry

'A sweeping novel you won't put down'

Katie Ffforde

I can't remember the last time I was so enthralled and affected by a story and its characters

Red

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<p>'This sweeping tale is by turns painfully sad and heart-lifting, with characters that stay with you.'</p>

Good Housekeeping

'Evans's storytelling feels both authentic and satisfying. An immersive mystery.'

Woman & Home

'This epic, absorbing novel is full of intrigue, emotion and characters who'll really stay with you.'

Fabulous Magazine

Utterly compelling and well written

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This isn't a comfortable read, but ultimately a rewarding one

The Weekly

'Filled with brilliantly believable characters, this is one not to miss'

Woman’s Own

My top book of 2019

Dinah Jeffries

Evans tells a poignant tale of the Horner family and their magical, mysterious country home

Woman

Evans is the reigning queen of the big house family saga and her latest, an addictive tale of love, art, loss and long-held secrets centring around an artist's inexplicable destruction of his most famous painting, is her best yet. The sort of book that has you ignoring family and friends long into the night

I Newspaper

A spellbinding story, brimming with flowers and paintings, loss and courage

Independent

'No one writes gripping family sagas like Harriet Evans'

Irish Times

Harriet Evans's family saga is a poignant story of love and loss across three generations.

Daily Mail

Don't miss the STUNNING new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Harriet Evans - THE BELOVED GIRLS is available to buy now!'Spellbinding' Independent'My top book of 2019' DINAH JEFFRIES'Her best yet' i newspaper'Gripping' Irish Times'Gorgeous' VERONICA HENRY'A poignant story of love and loss' Daily Mail MUST READS 'I can't remember the last time I was so enthralled' Red'Epic, absorbing . . . full of intrigue and emotion' Fabulous'A sweeping novel you won't put down' Katie Fforde Who would choose to destroy what they love the most? Nightingale House, 1919.Liddy Horner discovers her husband, the world-famous artist Sir Edward Horner, burning his best-known painting The Garden of Lost and Found days before his sudden death.Nightingale House was the Horner family's beloved home - a gem of design created to inspire happiness - and it was here Ned painted The Garden of Lost and Found, capturing his children on a perfect day, playing in the rambling Eden he and Liddy made for them.One magical moment. Before it all came tumbling down...When Ned and Liddy's great-granddaughter Juliet is sent the key to Nightingale House, she opens the door onto a forgotten world. The house holds its mysteries close but she is in search of answers. Something shattered this corner of paradise. But what? Lose yourself in this unputdownable tale of the enduring power of family love, told by three generations of extraordinary women. . . Readers love The Garden of Lost and Found'This sweeping tale is by turns painfully sad and heart-lifting, with characters that stay with you' Good Housekeeping 'Evans' storytelling feels both authentic and satisfying. An immersive mystery' Woman & Home'Evans tells a poignant tale of the Horner family and their magical, mysterious country home' Woman'Engrossing and clever and funny and beautifully observed . . . I recommend it wholeheartedly' Clothes in Books blogDiscover THE BELOVED GIRLS: your next unputdownable novel of family secrets, betrayal and one golden summer . . . Out now!
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The spellbinding new bestseller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Place for Us, The Butterfly Summer and the Richard & Judy Summer book club pick The Wildflowers, as well as the brand-new The Beloved Girls
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'Comfort reading of the highest order' India Knight'If you are reading this letter it means the sketch has been sold ... Nightingale House is now yours. It has long concerned me that you do not know the truth of it all and that at last I must right a wrong.'England, 1918. To the millions around the world who queued to see it, 'The Garden of Lost and Found' is an exquisite painting of childhood innocence. To Liddy, whose children play in that painted garden, it is a portrait of all she has lost. For her great-grand daughter Juliet, it's an inheritance of secrets and loss which she must try to understand.And Ned Horner, the genius who painted it? He only wanted to create a refuge from the outside world... but in so doing set his family on their path of destruction.The unputdownable new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Harriet Evans is a tale of love at its most powerful and of family bonds tested to the limit, told by three generations of extraordinary women.Readers love Harriet Evans'This sweeping tale is by turns painfully sad and heart-lifting, with characters that stay with you' Good Housekeeping 'Heart-stopping and wonderful' Sophie Kinsella
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Her characters are finely drawn and as the story hops back and forth from the Second World War to the present day, the reader becomes deeply immersed in this charismatic family's fortunes. The result is that rare and lovely thing, an all-engaging and all-consuming drama - Daily MailI love it on so many levels, the immense feeling of place, the slow, irresistible sense of being drawn deep into the family and its story, and the strange hovering of menace somewhere in the idyll. Wonderful - Penny VincenziAtmospheric and altogether wonderful - Lesley PearseShe reels you in and then you're hooked, right to the last page - Patricia ScanlanA wonderful, engrossing novel, full of the most vivid characters and a truly memorable setting. A triumph. - Sophie KinsellaShe's as good as the great Rosamunde Pilcher - Saga
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781472251039
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Headline Review
Vekt
380 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
40 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
560

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Biographical note

Harriet Evans has sold over a million copies of her books. She is the author of thirteen bestselling novels, most recently The Beloved Girls, a Richard and Judy Book Club Selection and the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller The Garden of Lost and Found, which won Good Housekeeping's Book of the Year. She used to work in publishing and now writes full time, when not distracted by her children, other books, gardening, her jumpsuit collection and now star-gazing, having acquired a telescope whilst researching The Stargazers. She volunteers with Inspiring the Future, is an ambassador for the London Library and last year was elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. She lives in the greatest city in the world (Bath) with her family.