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The Winter Garden
The Winter Garden
Author: Johanna Verweerd, Helen Richardson-Hewitt (Translator)
She was hiding from painful memories and trying to ignore the growing realization that life was passing her by. So she attempts to lose herself in her work, designing beautiful gardens for other people. — She has just begun planning a glass-enclosed winter garden when the letter arrives. "You'll have to come soon," writes her sister...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780764225239
ISBN-10: 0764225235
Publication Date: 4/2001
Pages: 269
Rating:
  • Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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2.8 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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knittymama avatar reviewed The Winter Garden on + 424 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is a very sad and moving story about a woman who always knew she was an illigitimate child and was treated different, sometimes cruelly, by her mother and stepfather and members of the community. She was never told the hows or whys of her illigitimacy, but now that her mother is dying she is trying to find out. I enjoyed it very much, but the translation could have been better. It was originally written in Dutch. Some of the English phrasing sounds strange, like they translated verbatim, and not for feeling. Still, I enjoyed it and would recommend it.
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glbirch avatar reviewed The Winter Garden on + 205 more book reviews
Read about 4 chapters and just couldn't get into it. Switches back and forth between past and present without preamble, so can be a bit confusing. Very melancholy and hopeless sort of tone. Surely it gets better, but I just couldn't wait!
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Children of dying parents sometimes have things that need to be resolved. For fifteen year Ika has stayed away. Her sister Nelly writes to say, come home, it's time, mother won't be here long.
Conflicted by her past, Ika, does go home. The cover on this book reminded me of my own grandmother's garden. I good read.


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