Why a Booktrail?
2000s: A horror story and a meditation on love at the end of the world.
The Garden
What you need to know before your trail
In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. For as long as they can remember, Evelyn and Lily have only had 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. So, when a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the centre of this new Eden, the reality of their existence is irrevocably shattered. Who is he? And where did he come from?
Travel Guide
Place and time unknown
The fact that the time and place are unknown is good as it really adds to the feel and remoteness of the story. You don’t know where you are when reading, nor do you know where the walled garden is.
The garden doesn’t even have a name. Again, anonymous and it could be anywhere but it’s obviously in the middle of nowhere and it keeps those within, away from the eyes of the rest of the world.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Garden
Destination/Location: England? Author: Nick Newman Departure: Timeless
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