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Thomas Dunne Books
May 2016
On Sale: May 10, 2016
Featuring: Emma Temple; Joe
336 pages
ISBN: 1250091403
EAN: 9781250091406
Kindle: B00NKBSJ7M
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Historical | Women's Fiction
An acclaimed international bestseller, The Perfume Garden
is a sensuously written story of lost love, family
secrets—and the art of creating a perfect scent. High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its
secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain
in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, and the
garden, laden with orange blossom, grows wild. Emma Temple
is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Emma is
London's leading perfumier, but her blessed life has taken a
difficult turn. Her free-spirited mother, Liberty, who
taught her the art of fragrance making, has just passed
away. At the same time, she broke up with her long-time
lover and business partner, Joe, whose baby she happens to
be carrying. While Joe is in New York trying to sell his majority share
in their company, Emma, guided by a series of letters and a
key bequeathed to her in Liberty's will, decides to leave
her job and travel to Valencia, where she will give birth in
the house her mother mysteriously purchased just before her
death. The villa is a perfect retreat: redolent with the
exotic scents of orange blossom and neroli, dappled with
light and with the rich colors of a forgotten time. Emma
makes it her mission to restore the place to its former
glory. But for her aging grandmother, Freya, a British nurse
who stayed in Valencia during Spain's devastating civil war,
Emma's new home evokes memories of a terrible secret, a part
of her family's past that until now has managed to stay
hidden. With two beautifully interwoven narratives and a
lush, atmospheric setting, Kate Lord Brown's The Perfume
Garden is a dramatic, emotional debut that readers won't
soon forget.
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