Hedge (eBook)

A Novel

Jane Delury (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
241 Seiten
Zibby Publishing (Verlag)
979-8-9862418-7-6 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;As lush and inviting as the gardens created by its heroine, this novel...will wrap you in captivating, high-stakes drama."e;-People Magazine (Best Books Summer 2023)"e;A great portion of [Hedge's] magic lies in how it turns a radical corner, gaining speed and burning urgency-then slowly becoming something else: deeper, denser, wiser. Readers will (and should) trust it to take us where we need to go-even if not where we expected."e;-The Washington PostFeatured in Oprah Daily's Spring 2023 Reading List and Kirkus ReviewsAn emotionally charged, richly observed novel about a woman balancing the demands of motherhood and marriage with her own needs.Maud is a talented garden historian and devoted mother to daughters Ella and Louise. Motivated to reinvigorate her career and escape her troubled marriage, she accepts a summer job restoring the garden of a lush, nineteenth-century Hudson Valley estate.While waiting for her daughters to join her at the end of their school year, Maud meets coworker and archaeologist Gabriel Crews, whose passion for landscape history matches her own. When their immediate and intense friendship ignites, it sets in motion a seismic shock that will profoundly change Maud's life, as well as the lives of everyone she cares about.

Autor

Jane Delury won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her first novel, The Balcony. Her short stories have appeared in Granta, The Yale Review, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. A professor of creative writing at the University of Baltimore, she lives in Maryland with her family.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Schlagworte: 19th century garden • affair • Ambition • american gardens • archeologist • Archeology • Balance • Bay Area • California • Career • career ambition • children • Choices • Conflicts • daughters • Decisions • Delury • demands of motherhood • Desire • Divorce • domestic drama • Drama • EB • Estates • Family • family drama • family fiction • family issues • Family relationships • Female desire • Friendship • garden historian • Gardening • Garden restoration • Gardens • HC • Hedge • historian • historical gardener • historical restoration • History • Hudson Valley • husband • Jane • Landscape architecture • Lies • longing • Love • Lover • Loyalty • marriage • Mid-Life • Midlife Crisis • Montgomery Place • Mother-daughter • Motherhood • Mothers • needs • New York • Novel • parenting • Passion • PB • PBK • plants • Presidio • priorities • regret • resentment • restoration • Safety • San Francisco • Secrets • Separation • Sisters • Summer • teenage angst • teenage issues • Teenager • teen daughter • therapy • Trust • wife • Women • women‚Äôs fiction • women‚Äôs issues • Work • work drama • Workplace relationships
• ISBN-13: 979-8-9862418-7-6 / 9798986241876