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The Victory Garden

By: Rhys Bowen
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
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From the best-selling author of The Tuscan Child and the Her Royal Spyness series comes a beautiful, heart-rending novel of a woman’s love and sacrifice set during the First World War. The tender tale is exquisitely performed by Saskia Maarleveld, a narrator with over 325 audiobooks—including multiple AudioFile Earphones Award-winners—to her name.

As the Great War continues to take a devastating toll on the globe, Emily Bryce meets Robbie, a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot who is set to be deployed to the frontlines. After a whirlwind romance, the two fall in love and marry. After Robbie ships out, Emily volunteers as a land girl, tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. Not long after, however, Emily receives devastating news; Robbie has been killed in the line of duty. Grief-stricken, Emily—who has just discovered that she is pregnant—turns to an unexpected source of hope. In the pages of a long-forgotten journal from a medicine woman who devoted her life to the gardens she now tends, she finds not only comfort and solace—but perhaps a path to her destiny.

©2019 Janet Quin-Harkin (P)2019 Audible, Inc. 20th Century Cosy Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Women's Fiction World War I Heartfelt
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I enjoyed this book and found the glimpses of life during the war very realistic . The storyline was really good and I enjoyed how the women stuck by each other. The narration was excellent.

Great read

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Awesome story, loved every minute of it, but the ending was so abrupt and left we with wtf isn't isn't there another chapter.

hopefully there is a second book or something, cause the ending just appeared out of no where.

Great story!.

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The Victory Garden is an exciting book, it pulls at the heartstrings, the story line is excellent, and the readers performance the same.

A Beautiful Love Story.

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