{"product_id":"the-sea-garden-a-novel-isbn-9780062279675","title":"The Sea Garden: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eRomance, suspense, and World War II mystery are woven together in three artfully linked novellas—rich in drama and steeped in atmosphere—from the critically acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lantern.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Sea Garden\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the lush Mediterranean island of Porquerolles off the French coast, Ellie Brooke, an award-winning British landscape designer, has been hired to restore a memorial garden. Unsettled by its haunted air and the bitterness of the garden’s owner, an elderly woman who seems intent on undermining her, Ellie finds that her only ally on the island is an elusive war historian. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Lavender Field\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNear the end of World War II, Marthe Lincel, a young blind woman newly apprenticed at a perfume factory in Nazi-occupied Provence, finds herself at the center of a Resistance cell. When tragedy strikes, she faces the most difficult choice of her life . . . and discovers a breathtaking courage she never expected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Shadow Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIris Nightingale, a junior British intelligence officer in wartime London, falls for a French agent. But after a secret landing in Provence results in terrible Nazi reprisals, he vanishes. When France is liberated, Iris is determined to uncover the truth. Was he the man he claimed to be?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIngeniously interconnected, this spellbinding triptych weaves three parallel narratives into one unique tale of love, mystery, and murder. \u003cem\u003eThe Sea Garden\u003c\/em\u003e is a vivid and absorbing chronicle of love and loss in the fog of war—and a penetrating and perceptive examination of the impulses and circumstances that shape our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003ePresent day. On a lush Mediterranean island off the French coast, Ellie Brooke has accepted a commission to restore an abandoned garden. It seems idyllic, but the longer Ellie spends at the house and garden, the more she senses darkness, and a lingering evil that seems to haunt the place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorld War II. Two very different women have their lives irrevocably changed: Iris, a junior intelligence officer in London, and Marthe, a blind girl who works in the lavender fields of Provence and is slowly drawn in to the heart of the Resistance. As secret messages are passed in scent and planes land by moonlight, danger comes ever closer. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Sensuous…. Lawrenson’s poetic prose vibrantly conjures up both the beauty of southern France and the ghosts, real or imagined, from different eras.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly on The Lantern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for The Lantern: “A bookish young woman + a mysterious older man + a crumbling farmhouse = a luscious mix of romance and gothic ghost story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO Magazine on The Lantern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Inspired by the Daphne du Maurier classic \u003ci\u003eRebecca, The Lantern\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart, gothic, bodice ripper that transcends the genre, thanks in part to journalist Lawrenson’s gift for bringing the senses to life. When she writes, ‘you could open an envelope … and find it contained no words at all, just a handful of lavender with a ribbon of dried grapefruit skin, or a sprinkling of vanilla seeds,’ you wish the pages were scratch-and-sniff.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople (3 ½ stars) on The Lantern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Sea Garden\u003c\/i\u003e weaves a double spell: Lawrenson steeps her story of the invisible heroes of the French Resistance crossing borders-and here, crossing time-deep in the eerie beauty of the South of France. The result is a marvelous strange fruit: think Graham Greene with a dash of Poe.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Blake, author of The Postmistress\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Deborah Lawrenson’s writing is delicious. 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