The Lost Garden (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)

The Beeler Large Print Series is our core publishing program. In it we offer a balanced selection of titles and genres for the general reader. A young woman gardener named Gwen Davis flees from the burning city for the Devon country-side. She has volunteered for the Land Army, and is to be in Charge of a group of young girls who will be trained to plant food crops on an old country estate where the gardens have fallen into ruin. Also on the estate, waiting to be posted, is a regiment of Canadian soldiers. For three months, the young women and men will form attachments, living in a temporary rural escape. No one will be more changed by the stay than Gwen. She will inspire the girls to restore the estate gardens, fall in love with a soldier, find her first deep friendship, and bring a lost garden, created for a greater love, back to life. While doing so, she will finally come to know herself and a life worth living.