A Memory Of Violets Cover Reveal - Hazel Gaynor
From the author of the USA Today
bestseller The Girl Who Came Home comes an unforgettable
historical novel that tells the story of two little sisters - orphaned flower
sellers - and the young woman who will be transformed by their experiences.
‘For
Little Sister … I will never stop looking for you.’
1876. Among the filth and depravity of Covent Garden’s flower
markets, orphaned Irish sisters Flora and Rosie Flynn sell posies of violets
and watercress to survive. It is a pitiful existence, made bearable only by the
presence of each other. When they become separated, the decision of a desperate
woman sets their lives on very different paths.
1912. Twenty-one-year-old Tilly Harper leaves the peace and
beauty of her native Lake District for London, to become assistant housemother
at Mr. Shaw’s Home for Watercress and Flower Girls. For years, the home has
cared for London’s orphaned and crippled flower girls, taking them off the
streets. For Tilly, the appointment is a fresh start; a chance to leave her troubled
past behind.
Soon after she arrives, Tilly discovers a notebook belonging to
Flora Flynn. Hidden between the pages she finds dried flowers and a
heartbreaking tale of loss and separation as Flora’s entries reveal how she
never stopped looking for her sister.
Tilly sets out to discover what happened to Rosie. But the search will
not be easy. Full of twists and surprises, it leads the caring and determined
young woman into unexpected places, including the depths of her own heart.
Hazel
Gaynor
is the author of The Girl Who Came Home
(William Morrow Paperbacks; ISBN: 9780062316868; 04/15/2014). She is also a freelance
writer, writing regularly for the national press, magazines and websites in
Ireland and the UK. Her writing success has been featured in The Sunday Times Magazine and Irish Times and she has also appeared on
TV and radio. Hazel is a guest blogger and features writer for national Irish
writing website writing.ie for which she has interviewed, among others,
Philippa Gregory, Sebastian Faulks and Cheryl Strayed. Hazel was the recipient
of the 2012 Cecil Day Lewis award for Emerging Writers and appeared as a guest speaker
at the Romantic Novelists’ Association Conference and the Historical Novel
Society Conference in 2014.
You can reach her at https://www.facebook.com/hazelgaynorbooks.
William
Morrow Trade Paperback; February 3, 2015; $14.99; ISBN: 9780062316899
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22206793-a-memory-of-violets?from_search=true
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