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    The Sea Garden: A Novel

    By Marcia Willett

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    Marcia Willett delivers another powerful and touching tale of the importance of friendship and family in The Sea Garden.

    Jess Penhaligon is on her way to Devon to receive an award for her botanical painting. Hosting her will be Kate, who gladly welcomes her into her home. Jess's own family fell apart several years ago, so she is grateful for Kate's friendliness —and her close unit of extended family and friends, who embrace Jess just as warmly.
    As this group begins reminiscing on their pasts and sharing their stories with Jess, it becomes apparent that her family history may be linked with theirs. Long-buried secrets from past generations begin to be uncovered —but at what cost have they been kept hidden?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 12, 2014
    ISBN9781466846524
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    The Sea Garden: A Novel
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    Marcia Willett

    Born in Somerset, in the west country of England, on the day the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Marcia Willett was the youngest of five girls. Her family was unconventional and musical, but Marcia chose to train as a ballet dancer. Unfortunately her body did not develop with the classical proportions demanded by the Royal Ballet, so she studied to be a ballet teacher. Her first husband was a naval officer in the submarine service, with whom she had a son, Charles, now married and training to be a clergyman. Her second husband, Rodney, himself a writer and broadcaster, encouraged Marcia to write novels. She has published several novels in England; A Week in Winter is the first to be published in the United States.

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    • 3/5
      Jess, who has just finished university, has won a prestigious prize which gives her the opportunity of a year off. In meeting Kate the widow of the prize donor, she finds herself staying in a village in Devon for a while, where she meets a large number of connected people, and feels herself oddly at home.

      The elderly Rowena is surprisingly excited at the thought of meeting Jess, who turns out to look remarkably like her grandmother did when she was young... and it seems there may be another connection, too. Meanwhile there are marriage problems for Kate's son Guy and his wife Gemma, who is the daughter of Kate' best friend Cass...

      I always enjoy books by Marcia Willett, but sometimes find her huge cast of characters to be rather confusing. Most of the ones in this book are old friends from previous novels; I certainly recognised Kate and Cass, Guy and Gemma, and various others who recur with a new set of problems. But I've read the previous novels over several years and haven't re-read most of them; so there's no way I can keep them all in my head. And this book starts in a frustrating way; other than Jess's story, it seems to be a re-hash of parts of several other books, as different people think about incident - happy and sad - in their pasts.

      However, she does tell a good story, and I found myself quickly caught up in Jess's narrative at any rate, and also rooting for Guy and Gemma. I skimmed parts about boats or the navy - these books are set in a world far removed from my own - and tried to ignore the assumptions about boarding schools which always annoy me slightly.

      Towards the end it became rather more interesting and I found the ending nicely satisfying, so could almost give this three-and-a-half stars... but not quite.
    • 3/5
      The beginning was very confusing with far too many characters, I had to take notes to work out all the relationships. The background and settings are very familiar to me and I enjoyed that part but I almost gave up at the beginning, I persevered though and all was well in the end.