Dimensions
151 x 232 x 34mm
A novel of love and its fragility, and the strength of family love, from one of Britain's most beloved authors.
A beautiful, very moving, melancholic and elegiac novel set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country. The story revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival. There is Jack Curtis, a self-made millionaire who has bought and refurbished the local stately home; Florence Plover, a garden designer in her sixties whom he has employed; and her Anglo-Greek niece, Persephone. There are the Musgrove siblings, Thomas and Mary, whose family originally owned Melton Hall, who run a failing garden nursery nearby; and there is Francis Brock, whose sister Celia, Thomas wife, was tragically killed in a car crash some years previously.
This is the story of their intertwining relationships and how they come to love, and not to love, each other in different ways and why.
