Audrey's Reviews > In the Heart of the Garden

Iris Bagshott is thinking of selling her place. she strolls through the garden, she visits every nook and cranny. As she tours, the ghosts of the past walk along beside her. For a thousand years, the Bagshotts and Salts have taken care of this beloved garden. From the days of Saxons and the Norman Conquest, her ancestors have lived and loved in this beautiful garden. They survived the Black Plague and the English Civil War. They continued to survive through the centuries and the World Wars. Iris revisits her own personal memories. She realizes that this beautiful garden is too much a part of her personal and ancestoral life. She decides that it is impossible for her to ever part with it. This is a beautiful tale of time and space.