Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 8th August 2007.
A brilliant mysterious story, written with a very literary tone, set in late 1950’s Tuscany. A young man is given a summer project to write about a beautiful garden in the Tuscan hills and soon finds himself drawn in to an intriguing story of two possible murders committed 400 years apart. Beautiful settings and beautiful writing combine to make a fascinating read.
‘An intriguing puzzle, elegantly written… a pleasure to read… the atmosphere of an Italian summer and of the mysterious garden are beautifully captured’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Mills writes beautifully; leading us gently and atmospherically through the Tuscan renaissance garden… an unusual, captivating novel that is a cut above the norm’ The Times
‘Unputdownable… hugely atmospheric’ Daily Mirror
'To be savoured… Mills weaves together an intriguing mixture of love, loss and divided loyalties' Guardian
Author
About Mark Mills
Mark Mills graduated from Cambridge University in 1986. He has lived in both Italy and France, and has written for the screen. His first novel, The Whaleboat House, won the 2004 Crime Writers' Association Award for Best Novel by a debut author. His second, The Savage Garden, was a Richard and Judy Summer Read and a No. 1 bestseller. Under the name Mark B. Mills, he has written the comic novel, Waiting for Doggo. He lives near Oxford with his wife and two children.
Savage Garden features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Savage Garden is available in Ebook, Paperback
Savage Garden was written by Mark Mills and published by Penguin Publishing Group
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