Title: Gwen's story
Description: Reclusive illustrator and gardener Gwen Purcell's devotion to her nephew and new-found love of orchids draw her from her family's country home to London's gardens and shops and, as Hitler is gaining power, to the German Alps.
Subjects: Family life, Fiction, Sisters, Artists, Gardeners, Orchids, History, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, England, fiction, Gardening, fiction, Artists, fiction, Germany, history, fiction
Places: England, Germany, Great Britain
Time periods: 1933-1945, George V, 1910-1936