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A Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Charts bestseller.From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman’s love and sacrifice during the First World War.As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage.When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily, and in the wake of devastating news, they are her saving grace. Emily’s lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified―and with child. Since no one knows that Emily was never married, she adopts the charade of a war widow.As Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs, the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster, but may open a path to her destiny.
The Victory Garden is by Rhys Brown. This book is wonderful and it takes you to another place with ease. It takes you to England during World War I. Many women have taken jobs once denied to them simply because men were gone. Many young women from the society pages had taken on jobs as well while some were just involved through charities.Clarissa Hamilton had been taken into the nursing section and worked her way up. She was now stationed somewhere in France. Her best friend, Emily Bryce, had been forced to stay home and work only with the charities her Mother deemed polite enough for her daughter. After all, Emily was only twenty and was highly marriageable. She only had to make her decision as to whom to marry among her parents’ friends and acquaintances. Emily was not ready to get married and had no intention of choosing the men her parents presented to her. An arranged marriage was not going to be for her! She understood her parents wanting her to stay at home after the death of their only son; but Emily felt the need to do something to help the home front to help her feel her brother’s death was not in vain. The one charity she thought particularly stupid was serving baked good to the men at the hospital which had been set up in the mansion next to them. It was for officers so was acceptable. If she had been allowed to sit and talk to the young men or write letters for them, that would be useful; but to serve buns from silver trays with crystal tongs and not being allowed to talk to the men other than pleasantries, seemed a waste of time until she accidentally met Flight Lieutenant Robert Kerr from Australia. Things seemed to look up as they became acquainted. When Robbie was sent to a different hospital in Plymouth, Emily decided to take matters into her own hands as she had just turned twenty-one. She enlisted in the Land Girls program near enough to be able to see Robbie on days off. Her parents were furious.Emily’s adventures with the Land Girls, her romance with Robbie, and her life after the War are described in wonderful detail in the book. Rhys Brown’s attention to detail in creating her characters and places in the book creates a world you can easily slip into as you read. You simply do not want the book to end and you are left wanting more.
