num_pages: 182
description: It's Spring 1941 and London is being destroyed by the Blitz. Gwen Davis, a young horticulturist, leaves the city for the Devon countryside. In charge of a troop of Land Girls, her job is to rebuild the grounds of a neglected estate. The manor is far removed from the fighting but Gwen has her own battles - as she struggles with her shyness and fear of intimacy to create a community among her girls. Gwen meets two people who will change her life. Raley, an officer awaiting posting to the front and Jane, a frail, free spirit whose fiancé is missing in action. Through them, and the beautiful garden that she stumbles upon, she finds a flowering of a different sort - her own profound capacity for love, even in the face of pain.
language: English
title: The Lost Garden
titlecomplete: The Lost Garden
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Canada, World War II, Historical, War, Gardening, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 2595
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: CBC Canada Reads
publisher: Bloomsbury