Consider the Lily
by Elizabeth Buchan
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Summer, 1929. The Hinton Dysart estate is dying from lack of money, and Kit Dysart, the heir, sees no way out. Then, at his sister's wedding, he meets the vibrant Daisy Chudleigh and her cousin, the heiress Matty Verrall. In love with Daisy but troubled by his family's decline, Kit chooses to marry Matty, though neither Kit nor Daisy is able to forget the other. When Matty, growing increasingly unhappy in her troubled, empty marriage, decides to re-create the estate's garden, she discovers show more solace and a gift of which she never dreamt. show lessTags
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I'd give this three and a half stars if I could. It took ages to get going - far too many characters introduced in the early pages - but by about half way through I started to enjoy it. Well-written and quite moving towards the end. A sort of society/village story about a marriage of convenience, set between the World Wars.
an easy and entertaining read - strong imagery
A friend suggested I might like Buchan because I enjoy Joanna Trollope. Well, not based on this book. I skimmed my way through it but it just did not appeal to me.
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Elizabeth Buchan was born in Guildford, Surrey, England. She attended the University of Kent at Canterbury in the 1970's and earned a double degree in English and History. She began working as a blurb writer for Penguin Books in 1974. She did this for 15 years and then went on to become a Fiction Editor at Random House in 1989. After the show more publication of her third novel, she became a full-time writer. Her novel, Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman, has been made into a television film for CBS. She was the eighteenth elected Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association from 1995 - 1997. Her title Separate Beds made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Consider the Lily
- Original title
- Consider the Lily
- Original publication date
- 1993-04
- People/Characters
- Kit Dysart; Daisy Chudleigh; Matty Verrall
- Important places
- England, UK
- Important events
- 1929
- Epigraph
- In the garden, more grows than a gardener sows - Spanish proverb
- Dedication
- For Eleanor Rose, my particular flower
- First words
- It began with a wedding in June 1929.
- Quotations
- Children were like strawberry plants. You wrapped them in straw and kept the frost off. Then they put down runners and moved on.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)So, you see, it came right.
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- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, French, German, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 23
- ASINs
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