I wasn't sure about this book when I started it, I thought it was going to be an old fashioned love story about a returning soldier coming home to marry his childhood sweetheart, and while it was a little like that to start with, it turned out to be far more interesting.
George returns from WWI with psychological problems from his time away but Amelia is patient and caring and willing to take things slowly, which is just what George needs. They do marry, and are somehow "led" to an old Priory deep in the heart of England, with wonderful gardens and a special secret Garden that changes their lives! They buy they buy the house with it needing lots and lots of work and is just what they want. But is a magical place with a spirit of its own! There are lots of twists in the story and you are never quite sure where it is going or what is going to happen, but you just have to keep on reading to find out! A very unusual and intriguing page turner, that offers so much more than is expected. ( )