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Cargando... Winter Bloom (edición 2010)por Tara Heavey (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Winter Bloom by Tara Heavey Trade paperback: 384 pages Simon & Schuster, $15.00 October 12, 2010 ISBN-10: 1439177937 ISBN-13: 978-1439177938 When Eva Madigan entered a neighborhood sweet shop with Liam on a sunny Saturday in October she finally felt there was hope. Something was different. The young widow and her four year old son were new to Dublin, and Eva was having a hard time getting to know people, having a hard time finding a place in the world. Then a chance encounter with mysterious old Mrs. Prendergast (whom gossips suspect murdered her husband and buried him the garden) led Eva to that long abandoned Prendergast garden and a disjointed group of people. Their lives would be forever changed by answering Eva’s blind request for help to work in a community garden. Mrs. Prendergast’s garden brought together people of all ages and backgrounds. Their only commonality was their love of gardens. Making up the rag-tag group are Uri, a Holocaust survivor and his divorced son Seth, a mysterious young college-aged Emily with a secret of her own, and the sad Eva. As they struggle to reclaim the garden from years of neglect, friendships are made, secrets are shared, and lives are entwined. All is lovely in the garden until one day Lance, Mrs. Prendergast’s son, shows up demanding that the garden be sold. Author Tara Heavey’s Winter Bloom is a well written, engaging story of loss and our fight for survival by adapting to the things that are beyond our control. I normally don’t review cover art, but I believe this book deserves a different cover. No offense to the designer but this is not a light “chick lit” book. It’s a study of the human sou,l and I think it should have a less “chick lit-ish” fluffy cover. I highly recommend Winter Bloom and am purposefully being vague about the plot so that as so the secrets and stories unfold, and I won’t want ruin your read. Get it, enjoy it, share it. Tara Heavey was born in London and moved to Dublin at the age of 12. A former lawyer, she is currently a full-time author who lives in Dublin with her family. Source: This book was provided to me by the publisher at my request and in no way affected my review. www.novelchatter.com Eva Madigan, a young single mother, has moved to Dublin with her son Liam to start life anew. Eva chose Dublin because she used to visit her grandmother there as a child. While in a gourmet shop one day, the shopkeeper mentions that the elderly woman ahead of Eva in line is rumoured to have murdered her husband. A few days later, Eva saves Mrs. Prendergast, from a purse-snatcher, and as the older woman seems a little shaken, Eva insists that she and Liam walk her home. As they are leaving, Eva stops to look at Mrs. Prendergast's walled back garden, which is huge and badly in need of care. Although the woman was curiously ungrateful and brusque, Eva stops by a few days later to check on her anyway. One of her reasons for stopping by is to ask if she can help Mrs. Prendergast with the garden, which is obviously too much for her. Eventually, the old woman agrees, and Eva puts up a notice in the grocery store for volunteers to help her. There are only two responses, a retired tailor named Uri and a university student named Emily. Like Eva, they are trying to get over something from their past, and we slowly learn all their stories. I discovered Heavey when I was in Ireland a few years ago, and picked up Making It Up as I Go Along on a whim. It was well-written and absorbing, so when I saw the e-galley of Winter Bloom I snapped it up. It's also well-written, and absorbed me for the duration of a long airplane trip. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: There would be tunnels of roses, beds of strawberries, fountains of overflowing herbs. And there might even be love. . . . In the heart of bustling modern Dublin is a littered, overgrown garden of tangled weeds and a stagnant, hidden pond. Belonging to an iron-willed elderly lady named Mrs. Prendergast, who is rumored to have murdered and buried her husband there, the garden draws Eva Madigan, a young mother struggling to move on from the pain of her past. Eva is joined by Emily, a beautiful but withdrawn college dropout; Uri, an old-world immigrant; Seth, his all-too-handsome son; and occasionally even Mrs. Prendergast herself. But what drives Eva to transform the neglected urban wilderness? What makes the others want to help her? Even as Mrs. Prendergast puts the land up for sale, the thorny lives of all the gardeners are revealed and slowly start to untangle. Overgrown secrets are dug up and shared. Choices are made; a little pruning is in order. Now Eva is about to discover that every garden is a story of growth toward a final harvest. . . . .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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