The Garden - Blog Tour

 

Author: Nick Newman

Publisher: DoubleDay 

Publishing Date: 30th January 2025 

Blurb 

In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. For as long as they can remember, Evelyn and Lily have only had each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know.

Each day is spent in languid service to their home: tending the bees, planting the crops, and dutifully following the instructions of the almanac written by their mother. So, when a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the centre of this new Eden, the reality of their existence is irrevocably shattered. Who is he? And where did he come from?

My Thoughts 

This book was amazing to read, not my usual go to but the blurb sounded interesting. 

I liked Evelyn and Lily's characters Even though both sisters and raised in the same household they were so different to each other and had their own unique personalities. Lily came across as the most inquisitive sister, wanting to no more outside the boundaries. Whereas Evelyn was more reserved and had this safety net around her that she did not want to disturb. 

The plot told between the sisters past and now in the present, gave such a claustrophobic feel but also compelling in coming to understand how the sisters ended up here. 

I liked how this book was not fast paced and it worked in this plot because it gave pace for the plot to start developing and the reader to catch up with the woven threads without being lost. 

The ending was well done as you soon put the pieces together and it all starts to make sense. 

The author did a great job in creating this  atmospherical dystopian fiction that takes you on this journey.