02209cam a2200409 i 4500 1045491681 OCoLC 20250806124722.0 181109s2019 wau 000 1 eng d 9781542040129 9781542040112 (OCoLC)1045491681 AJM e-uk-en PR6052.O848 V53 2019 823/.914 23 Bowen, Rhys, author. 9486 The victory garden : Rhys Bowen. a novel / First edition. Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2019] 353 pages ; 22 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a land girl, tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily, and in the wake of devastating news, they are her saving grace. Emily’s lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified―and with child. Since no one knows that Emily was never married, she adopts the charade of a war widow. As Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs, the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster, but may open a path to her destiny. Victory gardens Fiction. 22102 World War, 1914-1918 Fiction. 14477 Pregnancy Fiction. 19386 Unmarried mothers Fiction. 9325 Herbalists Fiction. 22103 Diaries Fiction. 10216 Devon (England) Fiction. 8342 England Fiction. 6021 Historical fiction. lcgft 129 .b156219992 ddc BOOK 30803 30803 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2025-08-06 0 BOWE 40498 2025-08-06 2025-08-06 BOOK 1