The sea garden
By: Deborah Lawrenson
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780062279668
Subjects: Secret service; Underground movements; World War, 1939-1945; War Underground movements; Intelligence officers; Islands; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Fiction
Description: Interweaving three narratives, a story of love, mystery, and murder during World War II follows three courageous women--an award-winning British landscape designer, a young, blind perfumer's apprentice, and a junior British intelligence officer.

Near the end of World War II, Marthe, a young blind woman apprenticed at a perfume factory in Nazi-occupied Provence, finds herself at the center of a Resistance cell. Iris, a junior British intelligence officer in wartime London, falls for a French agent. Years later, on the lush Mediterranean island of Porquerolles off the French coast, Ellie has been hired to restore a memorial garden. She is unsettled by the bitterness of the garden's owner, an elderly woman who seems intent on undermining her. A vivid chronicle of love and loss in the fog of war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-310).
Table of contents: title: The sea garden; title: The lavender field; title: A shadow life.