wasn't sure about this book when I started it, I thought it was going to be an old fashioned love story about a returning soldier coming home to marry his childhood sweetheart, and while it was a little like that to start with, it turned out to be far more interesting.
George returns from WWI with psychological problems from his time away but Amelia is patient and caring and willing to take things slowly, which is just what George needs.
They do marry, and are somehow "led" to an old Priory deep in the heart of England, with wonderful gardens and a special secret Garden that changes their lives! They buy the house with it needing lots and lots of work and is just what they want.
But is a magical place with a spirit of its own! There are lots of twists in the story and you are never quite sure where it is going or what is going to happen, but you just have to keep on reading to find out! A very unusual and intriguing page turner, that offers so much more than is expected.
The main reason why I bought this book was it's cover, They say never to judge a book by it's cover but I took the risk, and it was worth it.
I love to read books on nature look at the cover again, English country side, woods etc, .
so this The Kissing Garden's a love story written around a very greenish, enchanting surrounding, I enjoyed the surrounding more than the love story itself, Not a fan of romantic novels anyway, but this book has some supernatural elements on top of it's romantic story line.
The core of the story's the "Kissing Garden", a magical, enchanted little garden, It was the place where these two lost souls found love, and overcame the barriers taking them apart, And I really liked that bottomless black river, now that was really wired and spooky, Too bad the author didn't concentrate more on that place, Charlotte Bingham had some really good stuff scattered here and there but failed to connect them together, But still, not a bad read at all Wow I loved it I couldn't put it down, Although I felt the ending could of been better A romantic tale set in the English countryside and featuring childhood sweethearts who are attempting to rekindle their love for each other after World War I.
Good book enjoyable very romantic Loved it, an unconventional quirky story ,especially the magical secret garden, would recommend I was given this book by a friend to read since she enjoyed it.
I found the writing style to be good and the dialog excellent,
But I disliked the plot and the fantasy element the author added to the story was cheesy,
I think I'll pass this one on to the cottage, sitelink
A lengthy read but worth time spending !!! War, romance, enchanting lands couldn't ask for more : !!! Beautifully described !!! Don't go by the title !!! Light easy read The Honourable Charlotte Mary Thérèse Bingham was born onJunein Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, UK.
Her father, sitelink John Bingham, theth Baron Clanmorris, wrote detective stories and was a secret member of MI.
Her mother, sitelink Madeleine Bingham, née Madeleine Mary Ebel, was a playwright, Charlotte first attended a school in London, but from the age of seven to, she went to the Priory of Our Ladys Good Counsel school in Haywards Heath.
After she left school, she went to stay in Paris with some French aristocrats with the intention of learning French.
She had written since she wasyears old and her first piece of work was a thriller called Deaths Ticket.
She wrote her humorous autobiography, called Coronet Among the Weeds, when sh The Honourable Charlotte Mary Thérèse Bingham was born onJunein Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, UK.
Her father, sitelink John Bingham, theth Baron Clanmorris, wrote detective stories and was a secret member of MI.
Her mother, sitelink Madeleine Bingham, née Madeleine Mary Ebel, was a playwright, Charlotte first attended a school in London, but from the age of seven to, she went to the Priory of Our Lady's Good Counsel school in Haywards Heath.
After she left school, she went to stay in Paris with some French aristocrats with the intention of learning French.
She had written since she wasyears old and her first piece of work was a thriller called Death's Ticket.
She wrote her humorous autobiography, called Coronet Among the Weeds, when she was, and not long before her twentieth birthday a literary agent discovered her celebrating at the Ritz.
He was a friend of her parents and he took off the finished manuscript of her autobiography, In, this was published by Heinemanns and was a best seller, In, Charlotte Bingham's first novel, called Lucinda, was published, This was later adapted into a TV screenplay, In, Coronet Among the Grass, her second autobiography, was published, This talked about the first ten years of her marriage to fellow writer sitelink Terence Brady, They couple, who have two children, later adapted Coronet Among the Grass and Coronet Among the Weeds, into the TV sitcom No, Honestly.
She and her husband, Terence Brady, wrote three early episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs together, Board Wages, I Dies from Love and Out of the Everywhere.
They later wrote an accompanying book called Rose's Story, They also wrote the episodes of Take Three Girls featuring Victoria Liza Goddard, In thes Brady and Bingham wrote episodes for the TV series Play for Today, Three Comedies of Marriage, Yes, Honestly and Robin's Nest.
During thes ands they continued to write for the occasional TV series, and inadapted Jilly Cooper's novel Riders for the small screen.
Since thes she has become a romance novelist, Inshe won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association, sitelink.
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