The Victory Garden cover art

The Victory Garden

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 Months Free

£5.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Get this deal
Offer ends on 15 July 2026 at 11:59 BST.
More purchase options

The Victory Garden

By: Rhys Bowen
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Get this deal

£5.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £14.12

Buy Now for £14.12

From the best-selling author of The Tuscan Child and the Her Royal Spyness series comes a beautiful, heart-rending novel of a woman’s love and sacrifice set during the First World War. The tender tale is exquisitely performed by Saskia Maarleveld, a narrator with over 325 audiobooks—including multiple AudioFile Earphones Award-winners—to her name.

As the Great War continues to take a devastating toll on the globe, Emily Bryce meets Robbie, a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot who is set to be deployed to the frontlines. After a whirlwind romance, the two fall in love and marry. After Robbie ships out, Emily volunteers as a land girl, tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. Not long after, however, Emily receives devastating news; Robbie has been killed in the line of duty. Grief-stricken, Emily—who has just discovered that she is pregnant—turns to an unexpected source of hope. In the pages of a long-forgotten journal from a medicine woman who devoted her life to the gardens she now tends, she finds not only comfort and solace—but perhaps a path to her destiny.

©2019 Janet Quin-Harkin (P)2019 Audible, Inc. 20th Century Cosy Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Women's Fiction World War I Heartfelt War
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
All stars
Most relevant
A really lovely story, read beautifully. Thank you! I will look for more books by the same author.

Thank you!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I have just listened to this wonderful story. I feel so sad to have finished it! What a talented author Rhys Bowen is. I am so delighted to have discovered her work. I have also listened to The Tuscan Child and the Venice Sketchbook. Both equally superb !

Fabulous Book!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Not Rhys Bowens usual work. Rather clichéd. A gentle enough story. If this had been my first Rhys Bowen there would not have been a second.

A departure for Rhys Bowen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
expected a different ending...so was left feeling a bit deflated. First time I had heard the concept of a victory garden. would read from this author again as these books seem to be a quite light read.

reasonable read

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Brilliant book, did not see the twist in the ending coming. Interesting tale of the plight of the main characters and how they overcame it in their own right in a soft way rather than an angry one in an era where girls were viewed as chattels by men! High praise for the gentle, soft way in which Rhys Bowen handled this storyline. Will definitely buy more of her books. The narrator Saskia Maarleveld on the audible version was excellent and will look out for more of her narrations on Audible books. Recommended.

Brilliant

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews