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The Victory Garden
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Publisher's Summary
From the best-selling author of The Tuscan Child and the Her Royal Spyness series comes a beautiful, heart-rending novel of a woman’s love and sacrifice set during the First World War. The tender tale is exquisitely performed by Saskia Maarleveld, a narrator with over 325 audiobooks—including multiple AudioFile Earphones Award-winners—to her name.
As the Great War continues to take a devastating toll on the globe, Emily Bryce meets Robbie, a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot who is set to be deployed to the frontlines. After a whirlwind romance, the two fall in love and marry. After Robbie ships out, Emily volunteers as a land girl, tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. Not long after, however, Emily receives devastating news; Robbie has been killed in the line of duty. Grief-stricken, Emily—who has just discovered that she is pregnant—turns to an unexpected source of hope. In the pages of a long-forgotten journal from a medicine woman who devoted her life to the gardens she now tends, she finds not only comfort and solace—but perhaps a path to her destiny.
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- Alissa
- 2019-03-16
Not this author's best work
I'm a huge fan of this author but this particular story is very weak. It's mild entertainment, well-performed if you are looking for some undemanding background, but the characters are weak, the storyline predictable and too pat. Not at all what I've come to expect from this author.
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- Cherine E
- 2019-04-12
Repetitive and badly written
The book had the potential to be a great story but terribly written and very disjointed.
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- mary
- 2019-03-23
Ridiculously bad
I have so much enjoyed Rhys Bowen’s other novels, and this was a terrible disappointment. First, the Audible summary gave away about the first half of the novel. So, I just kept waiting for the plot I assumed was to come, to come. It was a waste of my time. Then about three different novels were packed into the second half. Everything tidied up absurdly at the end. Is this a novel about the war? Is this a novel about being an unwed mother? Is this a novel about the supernatural? About gardening? If the author had carefully crafted the book, she could have pulled it off. It can’t decide what it is and it was absolutely irritating to listen to. I kept rolling my eyes as the novel came to an end at the clichéd, hackneyed plot points. The most ridiculous was the cure for the flu—really?? Just awful. This is the first time I have listened to an audible-only novel, and will probably be the last. It felt like the author wrote a outline and then just filled in the blanks in order to satisfy a set of reader desires as quickly as possible. This was written only so that people would download it. The author didn’t care whether she crafted a good listening experience, and neither did Audible as publisher. A cynical publication. I’m very disappointed
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- Amy Moore
- 2019-02-19
Story was all over the place
This tale went from one story line to another and did not make sense. I kept hoping it would improve, but was disappointed. Definitely not the author’s best.
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- ellegreenland
- 2019-02-26
Not literary genius, but very sweet!
Just a sweet story with lovable characters. Bowen does a great job of researching the time period and offered interesting information on herbs and healing, as perceived by earlier generations. I loved the descriptions of the cottage and the grounds - painted a beautiful picture of a lovely place. Don't expect more than a pleasant time-passing experience and you won't be disappointed.
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- C. Byrne
- 2019-06-02
Not one of her best.
Far too romantic for me without the humour of her Royal Highness. just not enough of a story to make it interesting
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- Nola A. Stewart
- 2019-03-16
Love Bowen but not this story
Disappointed in the story line, it was all over the place. There were a lot of good plots that could have gone places but instead she followed them all and it was all over the place. I’m a Rhys Bowen fan but not this book.
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- Simone
- 2019-02-20
I wish it was a series
I am a huge Rhys Bowen fan that was let down with “The Tuscan Child” so I was not sure what to expect from “The Victory Garden”. I felt like the plot changed directions a hundred times, as if the author had too many ideas and was trying to cram a whole series worth of plots into just one book. It proves my point that to enjoy a book, especially when you are not able to suspend your disbelief and just go along with the story, you have to like the characters and in this case, I really did. I totally would have gone along with this story as a series!
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- barbara
- 2019-02-22
Looking for a good historical mystery? Read this
This is a good story. I felt a little angst all the way through but I expect that from a well written mystery. That edge of your seat feeling. The characters are well drawn. The life of women left home in England during WWI is painfully accurate but all issues are satisfactorily resolved.
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- Cherie
- 2019-02-23
Rhys does it again!
I always enjoy Ms Bowen’s books, and this is no exception. Quite lively. I really liked the peek into the life of land girls. Life was very hard for all women during WW I and people from all classes were touched by the devastation. This book gently leads us through some tough experiences that many women faced at this time.
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- Sylvia
- 2019-05-06
Wealthy heiress runs away and incurs curse. Or does she?
This is a novel about WWII and nurses and Land Girls and wounded soldiers. It’s a romance and a mystery. It’s a story of good hearts and loyal friends, mostly. It’s about upstairs mixing with downstairs. And, against all odds, it has a happy ending! A box of tissues may be required for the last few pages. Characters and their relationships are well-developed. Every one of them is intriguing and their back stories are revealed to a greater or lesser extent as the plot requires. Probably, such a large group of amenable persons has never been gathered in the same place at the same time. But then, that’s why we like novels like this. So we can be immersed in perhaps a better world than reality can provide! Highly recommended for light but engaging reading.
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- Mary Dietrich
- 2019-02-19
Harmless and predictable
Certainly an easy listen; however, every bit of the plot was predictable. No surprises. And, really, no reason to care about any of the characters beyond a casual acquaintance. the narration saved it.
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