"Set in a rural retreat, this heart-warming story of healing explores personal growth through the magic of friendship and letting go of the past. "
From post-redundancy floundering, to fresh-start flourishing, Zoë Richards’ Garden of her Heart sees a young woman heal scars from her past in a compassionate, easy-to-read novel that wears its heart on its sleeve.
When Holly is made redundant from her job at a travel agency, having been physically and mentally scarred by a vicious knife attack in her office — alongside bearing the scars of her colleagues’ lack of respect, a family tragedy and a controlling mother — she steps out of her comfort zone and takes herself off to Pinewoods Retreat.
Recording her thoughts and feelings in a journal, here Holly finds new female friends and solace while working in the retreat’s garden. At the same time, a smarmy dirt-digging hack — Dylan, the villain of the novel — threatens to expose secrets about her past in a sensationalist article, while seeds of romance are sown with “hunky Hunter”, the retreat’s resident personal trainer.
Showing the blossoming that can come from forming new friendships, venturing outside your comfort zone, standing up for yourself and letting go of your past to forge a fresh future, Garden of her Heart will be appreciated by readers who like their fiction to have a feel-good vibe through heartache and trauma.
To give you a flavour of the style and sentiment, I’ll leave the last words to Holly: “Here at Pinewoods, I’ve definitely cultivated the garden of my heart. And now I feel like a flower, not a weed”.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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