by Marita Conlon-McKenna · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781848272088
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«The Rose Garden» is Marita Conlon-McKenna's contemporary novel, published by Transworld Ireland in paperback (457 pages, in English).
After her husband's death, Molly is left alone with an old house to maintain and finances in disarray. Her daughters fear it may have to be sold, but when she discovers a walled, abandoned rose garden, with the gardener's cottage in ruins, she decides to restore it and, with the garden, rebuild her own life.
Light reading of contemporary fiction, for those seeking stories about grief, gardens and second chances.
Marita Conlon-McKenna is an Irish author of children's books and adult fiction. She is best known for her Famine-era historical children's book Under the Hawthorn Tree, the first book of the Children of the Famine trilogy, which was published in 1990 and achieved immediate success. Praised for its child-accessible yet honest depiction of the Great Famine, Under the Hawthorn Tree has been translated into over a dozen languages and is taught in classrooms worldwide. Conlon-McKenna went on to be a prolific writer and has published over 20 books for both young readers and adults. Her debut adult novel Magdalen was published in 1999.
