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2000s: Can a return to the past be the start of something new?
The Secret Orchard
What you need to know before your trail
Bette and Nina Crowdie have never been close – the ten-year age difference doesn’t help, and Bette’s rarely been home since she left for university at eighteen.
When their father passes away and unexpectedly splits the family farm between them, Nina is furious and afraid. She’s been working at the farm for the past five years. It’s the only home her young son, Barnaby, has ever had, and she’s convinced that Bette will sell at the first chance she gets. When they discover the huge debt their father has been hiding, Bette reluctantly agrees to help her sister. But that means they have to find a way to work together, and Bette must face up to the real reason she left all those years ago.
Could a long-forgotten diary and the discovery of a secret orchard on their land help save the farm – and the sisters’ relationship?
Locations
Reset- Scotland - Angus
- A: Lunan Bay
- B: Montrose
- C: River South Esk
- Scotland - Aberdeenshire
- D: Stonehaven
- E: Dunnottar Castle
Travel Guide
Barton Mill
A fictional village but lovely one set on the equally gorgeous east coast of Scotland. There is a cosy sense of place here and it’s lovely to spend time here. The orchard really is something!
It’s the landscape that wins here – the orchard, the farm and the countryside all around and on every page of the book. A very relaxing read in many ways – apart from the tension between the sisters that is!
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Secret Orchard
Destination/Location: Angus, Dundee, “Barton Mill” Author: Sharon Gosling Departure: 1839, 2000s
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