In the summer of 1929, Hinton Dysart, an estate in the south of England, is dying from lack of money, and Kit Dysart, the heir, sees no way out. Then, at his sister's wedding, he meets the vibrant Daisy Chudleigh and her cousin, the heiress Matty Verrall. In love with Daisy yet troubled by his family's decline, Kit chooses to marry Matty. But neither Kit nor Daisy is able to forget the other.
Drawn together by the yearnings of the heart, the three find themselves tangled in secretes buried in the family's history . But when Matty, growing increasingly unhappy in her troubled, empty marriage, decides to re-create a garden, she discovers solace and a gift of which she never dreamed.
A glorious fusion of love and gardening, Consider the Lily is a classic and poignant novel of love, loss, and ultimately, a new flowering between the two world wars.
Editorial Reviews
"An old-fashioned novel in the best sense of the word." —Chicago Tribune
"A perfect novel for whiling away a leisurely weekend." —The Sunday Times, London
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