The Water Garden

Louise Soraya Black

The Water Garden is about family secrets, guilt and redemption. It tells the story of a 30-year old full-time mother who becomes attracted to a troubled teenage boy.

"Beautifully written and very English in its landscape-love, family-love and garden-love" - Fay Weldon
"You've done an incredible job of creating subtle drama and menace, sensuality and enchantment out of the ordinary and domestic. This is wonderful writing." - Patricia Wastvedt, Author of The River and The German Boy

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Description

What happens when illicit desire conflicts with family loyalty?

1944, Italy
RAF nurse Maggie Jones and Captain Jim Howard meet and marry in wartime Rome. A blissful whirlwind romance settles into a workaday life back in post-war England.

1980, London
Maggie and Jim’s newly graduated daughter Vivien struggles in a dingy flat with her unplanned baby and distant difficult partner, wondering where her life is going.

2010 Surrey
Granddaughter Sarah arrives in the Surrey countryside, planning an idyllic upbringing for her boys. Instead she finds herself deeply and illicitly attracted to Finn, a troubled local teenager.

And then there is Flavia the Italian girl, who connects them all.

Three generations united by family yet torn by a secret held tight for generations.

Louise Black was born in England in to an English mother and Iranian father, and spent her childhood in Africa, Bangladesh, Iran and Indonesia due to her father’s work with UNICEF. She has a First Class Honours Degree in Law from University College London and practised law in the City for seven years. Her debut novel, Pomegranate Sky, won the inaugural Virginia Prize in 2009, and was reviewed in The Guardian and The Times. She is married, with two children, and lives in Surrey.

Additional information

Imprint

Muswell Press
Publication Date

3rd June 2021
Height

216
Width

138
Subjects

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Author Name

Pages

300

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