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friendship
gardening
grief
healing
holidays
Language_English
mental health
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romance
self discovery
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wellness
Product details
- ISBN 9781916747043
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jun 2024
- Publisher: Fox & Ink Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A story of healing and recovery that will warm your soul…and get you into the garden.
Garden of Her Heart is the story of one loner, two secrets, and three weeks at the Pinewoods Retreat.
When Holly Bush (yes, she still hasn’t forgiven her mother for that combination) is made redundant with gardening leave, after a brutal attack, she decides to visit a retreat not far from home. There she finds friendship and a garden in need of love, she ends up doing literal gardening leave, bringing the community of guests together. Journaling her way through her holiday, Holly works on both her mental and physical scars and discovers an inner strength as her secrets are revealed.
Zoë Richards was inspired to write Garden of Her Heart by being a suicide survivor from which she learned the healing that worked best for her, which is not the same for everyone. Dog walks around the Formby pinewoods, not far from her home, gave her the location, in an area known locally as The Lost Resort, a town that never came into existence, close to the sea. In the woods there is a sole Victorian house, standing alone on a cinder track, and this is the inspiration for the location of Pinewoods Retreat.
She lives in Southport, near Liverpool, has been married to Rob for 34 years, and they have a grown-up daughter and a cockapoo who will never grow up. She worked for the NHS as an improvement programme manager, reforming how children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities are supported in healthcare. Writing gives her an escape from the intensity of work and from caring for her elderly mother.
