Product Description
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, Thomass 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 whya perfect book to curl up and read by the fireside on an autumn afternoon.
About the Author
Elizabeth Jane Howard is the author of thirteen highly acclaimed novels, most recently Falling in 1999. The Cazalet Chronicles - Casting Off, The Light Years, Marking Time and Confusion - have become established as modern classics and were adapted for an. In 2002 Macmillan published her autobiography, Slipstream. In 2002 she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.