The Forbidden Garden: A Novel
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Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a mysterious English country garden, waiting to spring to life.
Every garden is a story, waiting to be told...
At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England coast, Sorrel Sparrow has honed her rare gift for nurturing plants and flowers. Now that reputation, and a stroke of good timing, lands Sorrel an unexpected opportunity: reviving a long-dormant Shakespearean garden on an English country estate.
Arriving at Kirkwood Hall, ancestral home of Sir Graham Kirkwood and his wife Stella, Sorrel is shocked by the desolate state of the walled garden. Generations have tried—and failed—to bring it back to glory. Sorrel senses heartbreak and betrayal here, perhaps even enchantment. Intrigued by the house's history—especially the haunting tapestries that grace its walls—and increasingly drawn to Stella's enigmatic brother, Sorrel sets to work. And though she knows her true home is across the sea with her sisters, instinct tells her that the English garden's destiny is entwined with her own, if she can only unravel its secrets...
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Ellen Herrick. (2017). The Forbidden Garden: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio.
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Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a mysterious English country garden, waiting to spring to life.
Every garden is a story, waiting to be told...
At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England coast, Sorrel Sparrow has honed her rare gift for nurturing plants and flowers. Now that reputation, and a stroke of good timing, lands Sorrel an unexpected opportunity: reviving a long-dormant Shakespearean garden on an English country estate.
Arriving at Kirkwood Hall, ancestral home of Sir Graham Kirkwood and his wife Stella, Sorrel is shocked by the desolate state of the walled garden. Generations have tried—and failed—to bring it back to glory. Sorrel senses heartbreak and betrayal here, perhaps even enchantment. Intrigued by the house's history—especially the haunting tapestries that grace its walls—and increasingly drawn to Stella's enigmatic brother, Sorrel sets to work. And though she knows her true home is across the sea with her sisters, instinct tells her that the English garden's destiny is entwined with her own, if she can only unravel its secrets...
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Herrick’s second novel takes place nearly a year after the events of her 2015 debut, The Sparrow Sisters. Eldest sibling Sorrel, one of three gifted New England gardeners, is invited by a friend’s brother, Graham, Lord Kirkwood, to rescue a purportedly cursed Shakespearean garden on his family property in the English countryside. She gets along famously with Graham’s wife Stella and their daughter, Poppy, and it becomes clear that Sorrel will fall for Andrew Warburton, Stella’s heartbroken, grouchy brother, a vicar who’s lost his faith. While the family cheers on their union, Sorrel worries that Andrew might be under a spell triggered by one of her sister’s potent herbal remedies. Meanwhile, she and Poppy investigate the family’s dark history and its ties to the fallow plot that Sorrel hopes to bring back to life. They’re helped by the family’s protective longtime groundskeeper, as well as Delphine, an old friend who aids the pair in decoding a series of mysterious tapestries and the secrets of Graham’s shady ancestors. Sorrel doesn’t believe in curses, but it seems like this curse might be real. This book would have been plenty interesting without the love story, which feels rote and pales in comparison to the unfurling of the novel’s mysteries. Nonetheless, Herrick manages to deftly tie everything together.
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Herrick follows up The Sparrow Sisters with another lush gardening tale. This isn't necessarily a sequel, but Sorrel Sparrow moves on from that previous novel in this new work. The Kirkland Hall estate in England is a vast property (a mini Downton Abbey) with one black mark upon its grounds. The Shakespeare garden is cursed, and any family member who tries to improve its bleak state is harmed in some way. The lord of the estate, Graham Kirkland, hears of Sorrel's magic-touch gardening skills and lures her from her New England home to restore the garden. Since she is no relation to the family, he assumes she will not be affected by the curse. But Graham's brother-in-law, the broody Andrew, is thrown into the mix. He's at a turning point in his life and is staying at Kirkland Hall to evaluate his future options. As Sorrel works wonders in the garden, the tender bud of a romance begins. As the curse is researched, secrets of the family's past emerge. VERDICT In the spirit of the film Practical Magic, based on the novel by Alice Hoffman, mixed with a mesmerizing gardening book, this enchanted, romantic story will be savored by even amateur horticulturists.--Beth Gibbs, Davidson, NC
Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Herrick (The Sparrow Sisters, 2015) moves the story of the Sparrow sisters out of the small New England town of Granite Point to the English countryside when Sorrel Sparrow accepts an invitation to revive a long-deserted Shakespeare Garden. Sorrel immediately feels like part of the family at Kirkwood Hall and begins to develop a special relationship with Lady Kirkwood's brother, Andrew. Her ability to connect with plants and flowers appears almost magical, and everyone is sure she is just the person to finally bring life back to a garden that has refused to thrive for years. Yet even Sorrel may not be able to overcome whatever curse seems to have overtaken the garden before the entire family falls ill under its spell. Though Herrick doesn't quite find a balance between contemporary women's fiction and magic realism, her descriptions of Sorrel's rapport with the plants and garden and the powers they possess will resonate with those who enjoy stories of drawing strength from the land. Recommend this to readers of Sarah Addison Allen, Kate Morton, and Vanessa Diffenbaugh.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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Arriving at Kirkwood Hall, ancestral home of Sir Graham Kirkwood and his wife Stella, Sorrel is shocked by the desolate state of the walled garden. Generations have tried—and failed—to bring it back to glory. Sorrel senses heartbreak and betrayal here, perhaps even enchantment. Intrigued by the house's history—especially the haunting tapestries that grace its walls—and increasingly drawn to Stella's enigmatic...
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