The Garden
Nick Newman
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
A darkly beautiful, eerie, hypnotic novel about two elderly sisters living alone at the edge of the world. In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. Evelyn and Lily have only ever known each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know. Each day is spent in languid service to their home: tending the bees, planting the crops, and dutifully following the instructions of the almanac written by their mother. When a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the center of their isolated grounds, their once-solitary lives are irrevocably disrupted. Who is he? Where did he come from? And most importantly, what does he want? As suspicions gather and allegiances falter, Evelyn and Lily are forced to confront the dark truths about themselves, the garden, and the world as they've known it.
Product Details
Price
$29.00
$26.97
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Publish Date
February 18, 2025
Pages
320
Dimensions
0.0 X 0.0 X 0.0 inches | 0.0 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780593717738
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Nick Newman is the adult pen-name of Nicholas Bowling, author of several children's novels including Witchborn and In the Shadow of Heroes, which was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award. He works as a bookseller at Daunt Books in London.
Reviews
"A gothic novel of weird sisters in the vein of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Nick Newman's alluring debut twists and slithers into its own mysterious, compulsively readable shape. I loved it!" -Mason Coile, author of William
"A fairy tale which gets you by the throat and doesn't let go. The Garden is both a horror story and a meditation on love at the end of the world. It's a testament to Newman's extraordinary gifts that its creeping dread never overwhelms its tenderness. The cool restraint of the writing only compounds its devastating power." - Emerald Fennell, director of Promising Young Woman and Saltburn
"A fairy tale which gets you by the throat and doesn't let go. The Garden is both a horror story and a meditation on love at the end of the world. It's a testament to Newman's extraordinary gifts that its creeping dread never overwhelms its tenderness. The cool restraint of the writing only compounds its devastating power." - Emerald Fennell, director of Promising Young Woman and Saltburn