Nice Girls Do

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Headline Review, 2006 - Gardeners - 344 pages

A beautifully paced love story set around a gorgeous garden from the author of ADULTERY FOR BEGINNERS

Anna can cope with gardens, especially the historic ones it's her job to research, but when it comes to love and relationships she has lost her way, especially after the collapse of her short-lived marriage. Then she meets Oliver, destined to inherit a magical eighteenth-century house and garden from his ageing grandmother, and a man who, unlike her, is more interested in the future than the past. But is Oliver's interest in Anna entirely straightforward, or does he have a secret agenda? Will, the gardener, claims he has, but then Will has secrets of his own, and a past as mysterious as the garden he looks after. As Anna gradually deciphers the secret history of the garden, she realises that only by learning to read the messages will she find a way through the wilderness to the hidden heart at the centre, and discover where her own future happiness lies.

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About the author (2006)

Sarah Duncan's first novel, ADULTERY FOR BEGINNERS, was shortlisted for the Joan Hessayon New Writers Prize, and has sold to France, Holland, Norway, Portugal, Brazil, Spain and the USA. Before she took up writing and teaching, Sarah worked as an actor, most famously as Rodney's girlfriend (before Cassandra) in ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES. She lives in Bath.

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