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A time-slip tale following on from her wonderful The Lantern. In the present day we have an overgrown French garden holding a haunting atmosphere. In the Second World War we have perfumes being used to pass messages. Lavender: come to the farm; rose: we have more men to move – and so on, all most ingenious. We then have spies, the resistance, codes and such, all very thrilling. It fairly gallops along with many questions hanging which, when answered, brought forth gasps of incredulity! Great stuff, a spy book with ghosts. Wonderful.
If you like Deborah Lawrenson you might also like to read books by Sebastian Faulks, Santa Montefiore and Robert Ryan.
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The Sea Garden by Deborah Lawrenson
Present day. On a lush Mediterranean island off the French coast, Ellie has accepted a commission to restore an abandoned garden. It seems idyllic, but the longer Ellie spends at the house and garden, the more she senses darkness, and a lingering evil that seems to haunt her. Second World War. Two very different women have their lives irrevocably changed: Iris, a junior intelligence officer in London and Marthe, a blind girl who works in the lavender fields of Provence and is slowly drawn into the heart of the Resistance. As secret messages are passed in scent and planes land by moonlight, danger comes ever closer...
Reviews
THE SEA GARDEN weaves a double spell, and honestly, it got me right from the start. Lawrenson steeps her story of the invisible heroes of the French Resistance crossing borders - and here, crossing time - deep in the eerie beauty of the South of France. The result is a marvellous strange fruit: think Graham Greene served up with a dash of Poe - Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress
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Publication date
28th August 2014Author
Deborah LawrensonMore books by Deborah Lawrenson
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) an imprint of Orion Publishing CoFormat
Paperback320 pages
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