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The Wild Garden
Kate Mackenzie is on the brink of success as an artist when she meets Gabriel Erskine, twenty-two years her senior. She's not looking for a relationship, but Gabriel's understanding of paintings and his outlook, so different from that of her friends, captivate her. Six months later, she moves into Allansfield, the beautiful house in rambling gardens on Gabriel's estate in Fife. She doesn't know him well, but what better way to change that than by living with him?
Henrietta Winthrop has no idea, when she arrives in St Andrews, that Gabriel Erskine lives nearby. Almost thirty years earlier she made a decision that affected both their lives, a decision she has often questioned since. When she discovers that the lovely young woman she has encountered painting in the grounds of the ruined cathedral lives with Gabriel, Henrietta is stunned, yet can't resist an invitation to Allansfield. But how will she feel when she sees Gabriel and Kate together in the home that could have been hers?
At Allansfield the arrival of Gabriel's son Hugh with his young child has brought the age difference with her lover sharply into focus for Kate, while wealth and comfort are proving no impetus for her creativity. When she realises too that Gabriel has lied to her about the past, Kate begins to wonder if she can ever be fully part of his life - and if this is in any case what she wants.
Touching, involving and honest, The Wild Garden is an utterly contemporary novel about life's choices, love's different aspects, and second chances.
Henrietta Winthrop has no idea, when she arrives in St Andrews, that Gabriel Erskine lives nearby. Almost thirty years earlier she made a decision that affected both their lives, a decision she has often questioned since. When she discovers that the lovely young woman she has encountered painting in the grounds of the ruined cathedral lives with Gabriel, Henrietta is stunned, yet can't resist an invitation to Allansfield. But how will she feel when she sees Gabriel and Kate together in the home that could have been hers?
At Allansfield the arrival of Gabriel's son Hugh with his young child has brought the age difference with her lover sharply into focus for Kate, while wealth and comfort are proving no impetus for her creativity. When she realises too that Gabriel has lied to her about the past, Kate begins to wonder if she can ever be fully part of his life - and if this is in any case what she wants.
Touching, involving and honest, The Wild Garden is an utterly contemporary novel about life's choices, love's different aspects, and second chances.
- GenresFiction
282 pages, Paperback
First published July 4, 1996
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September 29, 2017
A nice little romance with some art thrown in. A young artist moves in with a man 20+ years older than she is, and then discovers he's not quite as exciting as she thought, although infinitely supportive of her art. However, his potter son, who is her age is much more her style. Meantime her older lover discovers his long lost love is back as a visiting professor, and is tempted to renew the past. I still prefer her Victorian mysteries, but this is not a bad story.
September 22, 2021
Surprises !!!
New love , old love which one wins in the long run, sometimes you just have to let things play out
New love , old love which one wins in the long run, sometimes you just have to let things play out
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