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The Flower-Patch Among the Hills
The Flower Patch Among The Hills is a novel written by Flora Klickmann and published in 1918. The story takes place in the countryside of England and revolves around the life of a young woman named Joan, who lives in a small village with her family.
Joan is a passionate gardener and spends most of her time tending to her flower patch. Her love for flowers and gardening is contagious, and soon she has inspired many of the villagers to take up gardening as a hobby.
As the story progresses, we see how Joan's life changes when she meets a wealthy and charming gentleman named Richard. Richard is immediately drawn to Joan's beauty and kind nature, and the two of them begin a romantic relationship. However, their happiness is short-lived when Richard's past catches up with him, and he is forced to leave the village.
Joan is heartbroken but continues to tend to her flower patch and inspire others to do the same. She also becomes involved in various community activities and helps to improve the lives of the villagers. Eventually, Richard returns to the village, and the two of them are reunited.
The Flower Patch Among The Hills is a heartwarming story about love, community, and the beauty of nature. It is a timeless classic that continues to inspire readers today.
Joan is a passionate gardener and spends most of her time tending to her flower patch. Her love for flowers and gardening is contagious, and soon she has inspired many of the villagers to take up gardening as a hobby.
As the story progresses, we see how Joan's life changes when she meets a wealthy and charming gentleman named Richard. Richard is immediately drawn to Joan's beauty and kind nature, and the two of them begin a romantic relationship. However, their happiness is short-lived when Richard's past catches up with him, and he is forced to leave the village.
Joan is heartbroken but continues to tend to her flower patch and inspire others to do the same. She also becomes involved in various community activities and helps to improve the lives of the villagers. Eventually, Richard returns to the village, and the two of them are reunited.
The Flower Patch Among The Hills is a heartwarming story about love, community, and the beauty of nature. It is a timeless classic that continues to inspire readers today.
322 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1916
About the author
Flora Klickmann
75 books1 followerEmily Flora Klickmann was an English journalist, author and editor. She was the second editor of the Girl's Own Paper, but became best known for her Flower-Patch series of books of anecdotes, autobiography and nature description.
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November 16, 2024
I can see why Flora Klickmann's work was so popular when she wrote it. I can also see why her books are now out of print!
This book is a collection of short stories/observations from the time she spends in her 'weekend' cottage near Tintern (an online search shows that the cottage was in Brockweir, just over the river). She writes in a light-hearted manner, although her style is too coy and whimsical for modern tastes (we have an entire chapter devoted to 'the people of the streams' which is a kind of fantasy about the sound the water makes really being the voices of little people talking to each other...enough said). There were some enjoyable bits, but overall, I found most chapters far too wordy and the comic sections are over-laboured. Probably my favourite chapter was the one in which numerous villagers give Klickmann some pork from their recently-killed pig. Her efforts to dispose of so much pork are quite entertaining, especially as she dare not give any of it away locally, since that would certainly get back to the original donor and cause offence.
The book was recommended to me because of its setting, very near to where I grew up. However, it is only the author's references to places like Chepstow, Tintern and the Wye that indicate the location - otherwise, I didn't get any sense from her descriptions that I was reading about an area I know so well. And she writes all the villagers' remarks in a generic 'yokel' way, which doesn't sound anything like the local accent. She also refers to Tintern Abbey as being in England - it isn't! - but I'm more inclined to forgive that, since the border wiggles around so much that you can cross it a dozen times in a short journey, so it's perhaps understandable that a 'lady visitor from London' would make that mistake.
It's an interesting period piece, but not really worth searching out, and I certainly wouldn't bother reading any of her other 'Flower Patch' books based on this one.
This book is a collection of short stories/observations from the time she spends in her 'weekend' cottage near Tintern (an online search shows that the cottage was in Brockweir, just over the river). She writes in a light-hearted manner, although her style is too coy and whimsical for modern tastes (we have an entire chapter devoted to 'the people of the streams' which is a kind of fantasy about the sound the water makes really being the voices of little people talking to each other...enough said). There were some enjoyable bits, but overall, I found most chapters far too wordy and the comic sections are over-laboured. Probably my favourite chapter was the one in which numerous villagers give Klickmann some pork from their recently-killed pig. Her efforts to dispose of so much pork are quite entertaining, especially as she dare not give any of it away locally, since that would certainly get back to the original donor and cause offence.
The book was recommended to me because of its setting, very near to where I grew up. However, it is only the author's references to places like Chepstow, Tintern and the Wye that indicate the location - otherwise, I didn't get any sense from her descriptions that I was reading about an area I know so well. And she writes all the villagers' remarks in a generic 'yokel' way, which doesn't sound anything like the local accent. She also refers to Tintern Abbey as being in England - it isn't! - but I'm more inclined to forgive that, since the border wiggles around so much that you can cross it a dozen times in a short journey, so it's perhaps understandable that a 'lady visitor from London' would make that mistake.
It's an interesting period piece, but not really worth searching out, and I certainly wouldn't bother reading any of her other 'Flower Patch' books based on this one.
Did Not Finish
May 28, 2018Dnf. Some of the Librivox narrators weren’t to my taste.
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