The Winter Garden by Alexandra Bell Paperback Book 9781529100846

Welcome to the Winter Garden Open only at 13 oclockYou are invited to enter an unusual competitionI am looking for the most magical spectacular remarkable pleasure garden this world has to offerOn the night her mother dies 8yearold Beatrice receives an invitation to the mysterious Winter Garden A place of wonder and magic filled with all manner of strange and spectacular flora and fauna the garden is her solace every night for seven days But when the garden disappears and no one believes her story Beatrice is left to wonder if it were truly realEighteen years later on the eve of her wedding to a man her late father approved of but she does not love Beatrice makes the decision to throw off the expectations of Victorian English society and search for the garden But when both she and her closest friend Rosa receive invitations to compete to create spectacular pleasure gardens with the prize being one wish from the last of the Winter Gardens magic she realises she may be closer to finding it than she ever imaginedNow all she has to do is win