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Night Gardening
Night Gardening
Author: E. L. Swann (Kathryn Lasky)
Maggie Welles is recovering from a severe stroke that has paralyzed her left side. She is at home and receiving physical and speech therapies when she crosses paths with Tristan Mallory, a well-known landscape architect. During the summer evenings Mallory spends restoring Maggie's long-neglected and once extrordinary garden, the pair find restor...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780786889525
ISBN-10: 0786889527
Pages: 208
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 12 ratings
Publisher: Hyperion
Book Type: Paperback
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thameslink avatar reviewed Night Gardening on + 723 more book reviews
A sweet tale of the healing powers of love. A romance grows between two 60-somethings -- one a stroke-victim, as they garden together. Both had had unsuccessful marriages previously; one ending in divorce between two people who should never have married and the other ending with the death of an alcoholic partner after decades of unhappiness.

Well written, with lots of allegories involving plants -- a gardener's delight. Highly entertaining -- could not put it down and I read this in one sitting.

"A great romance of a novel" -- Los Angeles Times
"A radiant tale of second chances" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A novel for grownups, for readers who care about the English language, who hunger for a story about people we come to know -- a little -- and care about -- a lot -- and miss when we finish the book and return, hugely enriched, to our various realities," -- Alexandra Ripley, author of "Scarlett"
grandmasusan avatar reviewed Night Gardening on + 45 more book reviews
I loved this book. An older stroke-impaired woman asserts her independence from interfering adult children, reclaims an overgrown garden, and finds love.
bamboochik avatar reviewed Night Gardening on + 54 more book reviews
I absolutely loved this book. If you are an older woman and think that love and passion are over with.....think again! Such a wonderful book for those who love gardening as I do.


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