Great summer read

Ahhhh!

One of my favourite books.

I love Patti Hill. Have you read her?

I hope one day I will write a book as brilliant as her. This is one of three from The Garden Gate series.

Brambleberry Grace and HappyDoodler--you would LOVE this book.

Here is how the book starts.

I received a box of flowers from my dead husband.

That's a stretch. They weren't flowers at all but a dozen montbretia bulbs that looked like hazelnuts with ponytails. Blooms wouldn't show up until July, I figured, if they showed up at all. The UPS man had hidden the box under the welcome mat in a clumsy attempt at security. It amused me until I remembered I had ordered nothing from Burpee's. Within a heartbeat, I knew the flowers--because that's what he had intended them to be--were from Scott.

I love this book and read it every year when it's planting time. Mibby, the main character is a garden designer trying to hide from all the grief that seems to come and collide with her at the most inopportune times. This is a great story about God's loving hand through a valley of darkness ...and it's about really good lemon scones.

Visit Patti Hill here.