The Victory Garden

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Call Number: Fiction / Bowen, Rhys, Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Bowen, Rhys
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Bowen, Rhys	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Bowen, Rhys	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Bowen, Rhys	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Bowen, Rhys	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Bowen, Rhys	4-week checkout	Due 05-22-2024

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a "land girl," tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It's here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily, and in the wake of devastating news, they are her saving grace. Emily's lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified--and with child. Since no one knows that Emily was never married, she adopts the charade of a war widow. As Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs, the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster, but may open a path to her destiny.

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Enjoyable historical fiction submitted by jcottey on June 29, 2020, 7:42pm Rhys Bowen is such a good writer. I have enjoyed all of her books. I don't want to stop reading. As a volunteer land girl during WWI, Emily learns not only gardening/farming, but also how to be independent and embrace her true self.

Heart wrenching and inspiring. submitted by smgop on July 17, 2021, 9:26am The characters in this book really reached out and grabbed my heart.

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Fun read! submitted by bjkoch on July 11, 2022, 12:15pm I agree with the other reviews about the characters being really well developed

A young woman learns to be independent during World War I submitted by vickik on August 23, 2022, 11:05am Emily, a young woman from an upper-class British family during World War I, falls in love with Robbie, an Australian pilot, to her parents' disapproval. When he's sent back to the war, she enlists as a land girl, working on farms while the men are away at war. She is assigned to take care of the garden at the estate of a reclusive old woman, and there she discovers a mystery related to the previous inhabitant of the cottage where she lives.

The Victory Garden submitted by bertalen on July 3, 2023, 8:50pm So enjoyed learning about WWI from the female experience.