The Sea Garden

By Sam Llewellyn

Book Overview

When Victoria and Guy Blakeney-Jones inherit the tiny Cornish island of Trelise, they look on the restoration of the island's famous garden as a wonderful challenge. And the garden, established by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747260060
• ISBN13: 9780747260066
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Feature
• Length: 505 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 4.5"

Customer Reviews

An overgrown garden on one of the Isles of Scilly, unidentified bones and a family with many secrets

First Line: Revel the weeder was digging where the terrace wall had collapsed by the Sea Garden at Trelise. Victoria, a young American, and Guy, a young Englishman, meet, fall in love and get married. Shortly thereafter Guy inherits the family estate on condition that he and Victoria change their surname to Blakeney-Jones. They move to Trelise, a fictitious one of the Isles of Scilly off the coast of Cornwall in England. Trelise was bought by Joshua Jones in the 1840s, and the herbalist spent the rest of his life turning the island into a garden. Now the gardens are overgrown, and Guy has the idea of filming their restoration and making a television series. When bones are discovered in the section currently under renovation, they're dismissed as having belonged to a centuries-dead monk. Victoria doesn't believe this and begins to research the history of Trelise, going through diaries, letters, invoices and other documents stored in the mansion. As she pieces together the generations, Victoria finds deceit and death handed down over the decades-- enough of it to put her own life in danger. I really enjoyed this book. Llewellyn is a native of the Isles of Scilly, and he brings them to life on the page. The convoluted history of the owners of Trelise from past to present was compelling, and it was interesting to see how Victoria's own strengths and weaknesses played a part in her deductions and conclusions. If you're a fan of exotic settings and family histories with more twists and turns than a basket of cobras, you should enjoy The Sea Garden. I will definitely be taking a look at the other books Llewellyn has written.

Wonderful read

Both my wife and I loved this book. So it's not a gender thing. I thought we would be visited by Heathcliffe and did venture into the Secret Garden during the read. Llewellen is a writer with an excellent grasp of the english language and how to put it to paper. What a relief from some of the amatuerish trash in the top 10 now a days.

A real sweepy

This book is a real page turner, a treat, a must.Read it and you'll enjoy it!!!! if you'll read one book this year, read The Sea Garden!

West Country Tragedies

The Sea Garden unburies its dead and lays them at the feet of a late twentieth century American newly betrothed to a man who inherits the Garden by the sea. She curses her fate as history appears in the present and she tunnels back into the past. Betrayal, murder and the cruelty of the sea mixed in the wonderful bouyant Llewellyn style.