"Trapsing Through Time Can Lead to Love"
The Rose Garden
By: Susanna Kearsley
Genres: Romance Historical | Romance Time Travel
Posted: September 23, 2011
After the death of her very famous sister, Eva Ward is set with the heart-wrenching task of spreading her sister's ashes where she felt the most love, in a place that feels the most happy. She decides to return to the a home of their youth, on the Cornish coast of England. Upon her return, Eva is immediately accepted as family by the close confidants and friends of their mutually shared childhood.
Grieving and a little heartbroken, Eva settles into life at the old house when the whispers start. Voices that no one hears but Eva. Thinking she is loosing her mind, she does what almost every modern woman does and consults the internet. But when the voices become handsome men in eighteenth century garb, Eva finds herself swept to an fro and haphazardly deposited on a narrowly winding sea of time.
In a touchingly romantic, slightly mysterious and utterly entrancing tale that sweeps from the present and the past and back again with fluid ease, Kearsley carries readers on a ride that feels real and made me feel as if it could be happening right now in some small corner of Cornwall. I enjoyed getting to know the family at Trelowarth, and look forward to the stories of the other members, particularly the deliciously broody Mark.
Book Summary
Acclaimed author Susanna Kearsley's previous works have won the RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice Award, and finaled for both the UK Romantic Novel of the Year and the RITA awards.
When Eva's film star sister Katrina dies, she leaves California and returns to Cornwall, where they spent their childhood summers, to scatter Katrina's ashes and in doing so return her to the place where she belongs. But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past, as well as those from a time long before her own. For the house where she so often stayed as a child is home not only to her old friends the Halletts, but also to the people who had lived there in the eighteenth century.
When Eva finally accepts that she is able to slip between centuries and see and talk to the inhabitants from hundreds of years ago, she soon finds herself falling for Daniel Butler, a man who lived - and died - long before she herself was born. Eva begins to question her place in the present, and in laying her sister to rest, comes to realize that she too must decide where she really belongs, choosing between the life she knows and the past she feels so drawn towards.
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by: Susanna Kearsley
Sourcebooks
October 1, 2011
On Sale: October 1, 2011
Featuring: Daniel Butler; Eva Ward
448 pages
ISBN: 1402258585
EAN: 9781402258589
Kindle: B005EU50HY
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