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“Barron is a master at crafting English period pieces.”—Denver Post

“The White Garden grows an intriguing tale, weaving together the tendrils of past and present, growth and corruption, love and despair, into a landscape of hope. This is a mystery in a garden: a garden in war; a garden beset by modernity; a ghostly white garden haunted by the dead.”  —Laurie R. King, author of The Language of Bees

“Stephanie Barron has concocted a delicious exploration of what could have happened to Virginia Woolf in the weeks between her disappearance and the day her body floated to the surface of the river Ouse. Part mystery, part a search for redemption, The White Garden will entrance readers from the moment they open it.”  —Tasha Alexander, author of And Only to Deceive


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In March 1941, Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in England’s River Ouse. Her body was found three weeks later. What seemed like a tragic ending at the time was, in fact, just the beginning of a mystery. . . .

Six decades after Virginia Woolf’s death, landscape designer Jo Bellamy has come to Sissinghurst Castle for two reasons: to study the celebrated White Garden created by Woolf’s lover Vita Sackville-West and to recover from the terrible wound of her grandfather’s unexplained suicide. In the shadow of one of England’s most famous castles, Jo makes a shocking find: Woolf’s last diary, its first entry dated the day after she allegedly killed herself.

If authenticated, Jo’s discovery could shatter everything historians believe about Woolf’s final hours. But when the Woolf diary is suddenly stolen, Jo’s quest to uncover the truth will lead her on a perilous journey into the tumultuous inner life of a literary icon whose connection to the White Garden ultimately proved devastating.

Rich with historical detail, The White Garden is an enthralling novel of literary suspense that explores the many ways the past haunts the present–and the dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of the most carefully tended garden.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 "To stand on the bank of the River Ouse was to grip the edge of a volcano: she could hardly keep from hurling herself in.", Oct. 27 2009
Par Michael Leonard "MikeonAlpha" (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This exhilarating mixture of historical fact and fiction turns the tragic suicide of Virginia Woolf on its head and postulates what happened between the weeks Virginia drowned in the Ouse and the weeks before her body was discovered. But even as Barron tackles the life of Virginia, her relationship with Vita Sackville West, an undiscovered diary of her those weeks after she had died, and the nature of her fragile emotional state, the state of England in the mid-twentieth century and that of the machinations of the famed Bloomsbury group are bought vividly to life. But it is a recent suicide in the Delaware Valley that frames much of the action and jumpstarts the plot of this literary mystery. In search of clues to unlock the mystery of Jock, her grandfather's suicide, his brutal and inexplicable hanging. While his death seems inexplicable at best, American landscape designer Jo Bellamy retreats to the UK countryside, exploring the vast and beautiful gardens of Sissinghurst Castle in Kent where Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson's once lived. Ostensibly at Sissinghurst for her wealthy client Graydon Westlake in order to model its famous White Garden for him, Jo is desperate to unlock the secrets behind Jock's letter on three-by-five block of steno sheets that tells of the "lady back home" and his life as an apprentice gardener at Sissinghurst Castle.

Flirting around the edges of Sackville- West and Woolf's lives, Jo begins to uncover many clues to Jock's ambivalence and the reasons why in his final days, at Knole, the great estate where he grew up, the ancestral home of the Duke of Dorset. Jock was unable to tell the truth about an unknown woman's death, before he ran away to the war. Meanwhile, Jo finds herself caught in a veritable smorgasbord of archives and parish records, indexes and papers inspired by the discovery of an old copybook with yellowed pages, in the tool shed, written in the spring of 1941. While Imogen Cantwell, the head gardener, just wants to be left to herself to complete the art she had grown and who has a "sudden frisson of fear," as though a serpent in the form of this mild American woman, had suddenly slithered through Sissinghurst's garden, Jo decides to takes the diary with her. Clearly the fragments of strange script swirling across the fragile pages, are possibly an attempt at fiction, or an account of something else, a woman who felt haunted to the point of drowning herself and a woman who escaped fear.

Jo is helped in her search by Peter Llewellyn, his cosmopolitan manner seducing her as they engage in an attraction of opposites, Peter draws on a wealth of knowledge and expertise of which he could have only the barest idea. And then there's Margaux Strand "a no-nonsense girl who deals in ideas" and who snatches at the shabby little book as though it were a talisman, a gift from beyond the grave that might unlock the secrets Jo's grandfather had refused to tell and something that she could use to back in the glory. All are tacitly playing a game for high stakes and all trailing around the countryside with bits and pieces of clues, ultimately culminating in a hole in Leonard Woolf's back garden. In Barron's story, self-deception is the most powerful tool for survival, and while the novel sometimes reads like a television movie of the week, her colorful cast of characters shrink into relative insignificance as the historical elements of the 1940's dominate - the German advance, the blackout nights, the rumors of German spies, Vanessa Bell's painting of a mural of Virgin and Apostle, Vita and her White Garden, and Leonard and his bound volume - all struggling with guilt, and begging for forgiveness.

All the while the focus remains on the stubborn Jo, desperate to find the link between Sissinghurst, her grandfather and the noble Virginia Woolf, Clearly, Virginia - whose madness may have been invented by those around her as a method of stifling her independent genius - had history of nervous complaint and instability. But did she really suicide as history dictates? The notebook - and indeed the author's tale - raises all kinds of questions: did Virginia leave Leonard, wanting desperately to live? Did he find her? Force her back? Ultimately, Barron mixes modern-day sleuthing into a fascinating account of might of have been, unfurling the life of a terribly tortured middle-aged woman who fancied she could see the future, and it wasn't the one she wanted. Mike Leonard October 09.
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