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The Heirloom Garden
Viola Shipman

Graydon House
May 2020
On Sale: April 28, 2020
Featuring: Iris Maynard; Abby Peterson
384 pages
ISBN: 1525804618
EAN: 9781525804618
Kindle: B07QWXFKXG
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Women's Fiction Contemporary

In her inimitable style, Viola Shipman explores the unlikely relationship between two very different women brought together by the pain of war, but bonded by hope, purpose…and flowers.

Iris Maynard lost her husband in World War II, her daughter to illness and, finally, her reason to live. Walled off from the world for decades behind the towering fence surrounding her home, Iris has built a new family…of flowers. Iris propagates her own daylilies and roses while tending to a garden filled with the heirloom starts that keep the memories of her loved ones alive.

When Abby Peterson moves next door with her family—a husband traumatized by his service in the Iraq War and a young daughter searching for stability—Iris is reluctantly yet inevitably drawn into her boisterous neighbor’s life, where, united by loss and a love of flowers, she and Abby tentatively unearth their secrets, and help each other discover how much life they have yet to live.

With delightful illustrations and fascinating detail, Viola Shipman’s heartwarming story will charm readers while resonating with issues that are so relevant today.

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Re: The Heirloom Garden

Awesome review, which gives reason for me to make this book a
must read as I to have had many losses and I'm all alone in
this world now and from the review I feel like I know exactly
what Iris Maynard has gone through and is still going through
in life.
(Robert Young 1:32pm September 9, 2020)