The garden house
(Book)

Marcia Willett's The Garden House is a charming and heartwarming novel about family, yearning, and long-buried secrets. Fresh out of university, El moves into her father's home just outside Tavistock in Devon after his death. Although her childhood friend, Will, is there to help her through her grief, she soon realises there were things her father was hiding from her ... Julia is mourning Martin, but they thought it best to keep their relationship secret, and she must now grieve entirely alone. All she has left of her love are the memories of their time spent at a beautiful community garden and teashop nearby. The Garden House is where they met, fell in love, and where their secret affair will inevitably be uncovered. As Will and El begin to piece together her father's secrets, they come closer and closer to both Julia and a truth that is difficult to face.