Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

The Victory Garden

A Novel

The Victory Garden( )
Author: Bowen, Rhys
ISBN:978-1-5420-4012-9
Publication Date:Feb 2019
Publisher:Amazon Publishing
Imprint:Lake Union Publishing
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman's love and sacrifice during the First World War.

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage.

...
More Description

Book Details
Pages:368
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / 20Th Century / World War Ii & Holocaust
Fiction / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.75 x 8.5 x 1.13 Inches
Book Weight:1.05 Pounds
Author Biography
Bowen, Rhys (Author)
Rhys Bowen was born Janet Quin-Harkin in 1941 in Bath, England. She earned her bachelors degree from the University of London. Soon after graduation she worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation as a studio manager and writer. She then took a job working for a textbook company developing reading texts before writing her own books. Her first picture book - Peter Penny's Dance - was published in 1976 and changed her career to children's book author. The book earned praise and won numerous awards. In 1981 she wrote a teen novel entitled California Girl which became the first installment in Bantam's Sweet Dreams series. This series grew to include novels such as Love Match, Daydreamer, and Ten-Boy Summer. These Sweet Dreams books started a major trend in young adult publishing. they were praised as an encouragement to reading. Janet Quin-Harkin also authored non-series fiction for adolescents such as award winning novel Wanted: Date for Saturday Night and Summer Heat. She also wrote the young adult historical novels Madam Sarah and Fool's Gold. She then moved on to writng mystery novels whcih included her Constable Evans series. Her book Royal Blood made the New York Times Bestseller list.

030



Featured Books

Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane
Paperback: $7.99
Winter Solstice
Hilderbrand, Elin
Paperback: $17.99
American Demon
Stashower, Daniel
Paperback: $20.00

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.