02470cam a2200349 i 4500 502380336 TxAuBib 20210519120000.0 200505s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020018853 9781982107826 hardcover $28.00 1982107820 hardcover $28.00 9781982107833 trade paperback 1982107839 trade paperback (OCoLC)1154122960 TxAuBib rda Kelly, Julia. The Last Garden In England. First Gallery Books hardcover edition. New York : Gallery Books, 2021. 354 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Present day: Emma Lovett, who has dedicated her career to breathing new life into long-neglected gardens, has just been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to restore the gardens of the famed Highbury House estate, designed in 1907 by her hero Venetia Smith. But as Emma dives deeper into the gardens' past, she begins to uncover secrets that have long lain hidden. 1907: A talented artist with a growing reputation for her ambitious work, Venetia Smith has carved out a niche for herself as a garden designer to industrialists, solicitors, and bankers looking to show off their wealth with sumptuous country houses. When she is hired to design the gardens of Highbury House, she is determined to make them a triumph, but the gardens - and the people she meets - promise to change her life forever. 1944: When land girl Beth Pedley arrives at a farm on the outskirts of the village of Highbury, all she wants is to find a place she can call home. Cook Stella Adderton, on the other hand, is desperate to leave Highbury House to pursue her own dreams. And widow Diana Symonds, the mistress of the grand house, is anxiously trying to cling to her pre-war life now that her home has been requisitioned and transformed into a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers. But when war threatens Highbury House's treasured gardens, these three very different women are drawn together by a secret that will last for decades."--Publisher. 20210519. Women England Fiction. Gardens Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Historical fiction. TXMLR