The Twilight Garden

About the book

The uplifting, unforgettable new novel from the acclaimed author of The Reading List

In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a neglected community garden.

Once a sanctuary for people when they needed it most, the gardens gate is now firmly closed. And thats exactly how Winston at No.79 likes it anything to avoid his irritating new next-door neighbour.

But when a mystery parcel drops on Winstons doormat a curious bundle of photographs of a community garden, hisgarden, bursting with life years ago a seed of an idea is planted . . .

Somewhere out there, a secret gardener made a decades-old promise to keep the communitys spirit alive. And now its time for The Twilight Garden to come out of hibernation . . .

Sweeping through the 1970s to a modern corner of London, this is a life-affirming story of small spaces, small pleasures and a community lost and found.