There's life all around you, if you just take the time to look for it...
In a small pocket of the city, between the houses of No. 77 and No. 79 on Eastbourne Road, there’s a neglected community garden.
Once vibrant and welcoming, and a sanctuary for the people when they needed it most, the garden’s gate is firmly closed.
But it only takes a small seed of an idea for big changes to happen. And as the neighbours’ need for connection grows, the twilight garden comes out of hibernation...
Sara's Reading List was a beautiful, touching story of people coming together to help each other in ways even they didn't know they needed. That one centered around books and reading; this one is about gardening, but that's only the topic. What they're about is the connections forged by people, even when they don't intend to, even when they think they're doing something quite different.
This story is told in two timelines, which is usually a device I don't like, but here it really seemed to work. We had an idea how the older track would end up, from things said in the younger track, but watching it happen was still amazing. I don't know a lot about gardening, but I was able to follow along with everything they were doing (who knew you could grow bananas in London? Not I.)
This is a wonderful, heartwarming book, apart from the section that ripped my heart out of my chest and did a little dance on it. All the rest was amazing, though! Sara is carving out a niche for herself and I will definitely be reading her next books. Fantastic.
The Twilight Garden publishes on the 8th of June, 2023. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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