Victory Garden

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.

De la autorul cel mai bine vandut al Copilului toscan vine un roman frumos si inima, despre dragostea si sacrificiul unei femei in timpul Primului Razboi Mondial. In timp ce Marele Razboi continua sa-si ia efectul, Emily Bryce, in varsta de douazeci si unu de ani, este sa contribuie la efortul de razboi. Este convinsa de un pilot australian obraznic si chipes ca poate face mai mult si nu a trecut mult timp pana se indragosteste de el si ii accepta propunerea de casatorie. Cand este trimis inapoi pe front, Emily se ofera voluntar ca „tara” fata ”, avand grija de terenurile neglijate ale unei mari proprietati din Devonshire.