The Garden of Lost and Found: The gripping tale of the power of family love - Couverture souple

'Spellbinding' Independent
'My top book of 2019' DINAH JEFFRIES
'Her best yet' i newspaper
'Gripping' Irish Times
'Gorgeous' VERONICA HENRY
'A poignant story of love and loss' Daily Mail MUST READS
'I can't remember the last time I was so enthralled' Red
'Epic, absorbing ... full of intrigue and emotion' Fabulous

'A sweeping novel you won't put down' Katie Fforde

Who would choose to destroy what they love the most?

Nightingale House, 1919.

Liddy Horner discovers her husband, the world-famous artist Sir Edward Horner, burning his best-known painting The Garden of Lost and Found days before his sudden death.

Nightingale House was the Horner family's beloved home - a gem of design created to inspire happiness - and it was here Ned painted The Garden of Lost and Found, capturing his children on a perfect day, playing in the rambling Eden he and Liddy made for them.

One magical moment. Before it all came tumbling down...

When Ned and Liddy's great-granddaughter Juliet is sent the key to Nightingale House, she opens the door onto a forgotten world. The house holds its mysteries close but she is in search of answers.

Something shattered this corner of paradise. But what?

Lose yourself in this unputdownable tale of the enduring power of family love, told by three generations of extraordinary women. . .

Readers love The Garden of Lost and Found

'This sweeping tale is by turns painfully sad and heart-lifting, with characters that stay with you' Good Housekeeping

'Evans' storytelling feels both authentic and satisfying. An immersive mystery' Woman & Home

'Evans tells a poignant tale of the Horner family and their magical, mysterious country home' Woman

'Engrossing and clever and funny and beautifully observed ... I recommend it wholeheartedly' Clothes in Books blog

'Comfort reading of the highest order' India Knight

'If you are reading this letter it means the sketch has been sold ... Nightingale House is now yours. It has long concerned me that you do not know the truth of it all and that at last I must right a wrong.'

England, 1918. To the millions around the world who queued to see it, 'The Garden of Lost and Found' is an exquisite painting of childhood innocence.

To Liddy, whose children play in that painted garden, it is a portrait of all she has lost. For her great-grand daughter Juliet, it's an inheritance of secrets and loss which she must try to understand.

And Ned Horner, the genius who painted it? He only wanted to create a refuge from the outside world... but in so doing set his family on their path of destruction.

The unputdownable new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Harriet Evans is a tale of love at its most powerful and of family bonds tested to the limit, told by three generations of extraordinary women.

Readers love Harriet Evans

'This sweeping tale is by turns painfully sad and heart-lifting, with characters that stay with you' Good Housekeeping

'Heart-stopping and wonderful' Sophie Kinsella