Jetzt beim zweiten Mal hatte ich echt Spaß beim Lesen und wollte mehr � THE LAVENDER GARDEN moves back and forth from current day to WWII making a beautiful story even more enticing. La resolución final, que une por fin a las dos familias protagonistas, aunque bien narrada, quizás haya sido demasiado previsible (O tal vez es que yo haya leído demasiadas novelas de temática similar).

As Emilie unravels the story, she too embarks on her own journey of discovery, realizing that the château may provide clues to her own difficult past and finally unlock the future. Lucinda Riley was born in 1965 in Ireland and, after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first novel aged twenty-four. What woman intelligent enough to be a veterinarian and who has made a practice of being independent is going to open her home and heart to the first handsome man who walks up to her after she very publicly inherits a fortune?From the moment I picked the story up I became enthralled with it, I simply could not put the book down again. You'd think someone who has worked hard enough and single-mindedly enough to have such a career would have a bit of gumption, but Emilie seemed to me to have absolutely none. The good one's seem to have no fault and the bad one's have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, which makes it hard to take the characters seriously, considering people just aren't like that. As Emilie unravels the story, she too embarks on a journey of discovery, realizing that the château may provide clues to her own difficult past.

Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France. I’d never heard of the book before, it wasn’t on my radar, however the description on the back of the book sounded interesting so I spent the 50¢ and bought it.

In general I don’t have issues when books delve into rape and sexual assault but the problem here is that the author doesn’t dive into it. The mother dies at the start and Emilie, who has 'rebelled' by abandoning the social life and becoming a vet, is left with a huge chateau on her hands. The account of the important family connection is revealed through Constance's life during WWII and her connection to the de la Martinieries' family.

The incredible bravery of the SOE, the Resistance and the ordinary French men and women is movingly told; I'm a Brit used to war stories told from home soil and am ashamed to say how little I know about day to day occupied France. There were lots of sub-plots in this book I'd have liked under other circumstances, but I just couldn't get past Emilie. If you are looking for a story, perhaps something old fashioned but something with history, romance, big domineering houses that are as good as characters, conflict and resolution, love and loss, prejudice in race, in class then this book will tick all the boxes. As Emilie unravels the story, she too embarks on her own journey of discovery, realising that the ch teau may provide clues to her own difficult past and finally unlock the future.Toliko truda, detalja, emotivnosti, prikazi jednostavni, ležerni, ne postoji ništa ubrzano,usiljeno. As Emilie unravels the story, she too embarks on her own journey of discovery, realising that the chateau may provide clues to her own difficult past and finally unlock the future. The way Emilie throws in at the very end that she can’t have kids feels rushed and makes zero sense.

One of the first issues I stumbled across in this book is that it is so filled with clichés and overused tropes. I loved every page of the book and was quite sad to finish the story, I must say I feel I gained a lot more knowledge from reading the book, as well as really enjoying the story for what it was. I loved her detail about the French and English countryside and absolutely loved the specifics of the ancestry of Emilee's family.Paris, 1944: A bright, young British office clerk, Constance Carruthers, is sent undercover to Paris to be part of Churchill’s Special Operations Executive during the climax of the Nazi occupation. As with most dual-timeline books, the present-day story wasn't a patch on the past, but the bittersweet wartime story of loyalty and sacrifice more than made up for any shortcomings with its many twists and turns (just when you think you have it all figured out. PRAISE FOR LUCINDA RILEY Romantic fiction at its most captivating Lancashire Evening Post Riley is talented . But, did Sebastian suddenly appear and help Emilie because of the family connection or because he was interested in the valuable paintings inside her estates and most of all her family inheritance? This book is over 500 pages long with at least 2/3 of it being waste that doesn't serve to move the plot along, yet the ending was completely rushed.