BOOKS TO FEED THE IMAGINATION
THE LAST GARDEN IN ENGLAND
by Julia Kelly
This title isn’t a “gardening book,” but it is sure to delight gardeners who enjoy reading fiction. In The Last Garden, novelist Julia Kelly tells the stories of women separated by time but connected by one estate garden in England. The present-day character, Emma, is restoring the garden that was designed by the 1907 character, Venetia Smith, and experienced by 1944 character Beth Pedley and her friends. The story of the garden’s creation and decline slowly unfolds through chapters that bounce amid the characters’ points of view and time periods.
