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Consider the Lily

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SKU:
1166
Condition:
Very Good
Format:
Paperback, 469 pages
Publisher:
The Penguin Group, 1995
Edition:
First Penguin Books Edition, First Printing
Elizabeth Buchan garnered both praise and a loyal readership with the bestselling Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman and The Good Wife Strikes Back. Now her many new fans can discover one of her beloved early novels.

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 excellent story... strong imaginative power... wonderful sense of atmosphere....A love story played out among three people and woven into the life of an English country house and its garden." —Joanna Trollope


"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

About the Author

Elizabeth Buchan is the author of several highly acclaimed and bestselling books of fiction, including the bestselling Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, The Good Wife Strikes Back, Everything She Thought She Wanted, and Consider the Lily.