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About this book

A beautiful very moving melancholic and elegiac novel set in the late 1960s in Melton a small town in the West Country. The story revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival. There is Jack Curtis a self-made millionaire who has bought and refurbished the local stately home Florence Plover a garden designer in her sixties whom he has employed and her Anglo-Greek niece Persephone. There are the Musgrove siblings Thomas and Mary whose family originally owned Melton Hall who run a failing garden nursery nearby and there is Francis Brock whose sister Celia Thomass wife was tragically killed in a car crash some years previously. This is the story of their intertwining relationships and how they come to love and not to love each other in different ways and why - a perfect book to curl up and read by the fireside on an autumn afternoon and as satisfying a read as Brief Encounter is a film.