Portobello Book Blog

I’m really happy to be helping share the lovely cover for Sharon Gosling’s forthcoming novel, The Forgotten Garden. I absolutely adored her book The Lighthouse Bookshop – it’s one of my favourite reads this year! At the TeamBATC showcase last week we heard a bit about the book and heard a sneak preview too. Personally, I can’t wait and if you like the look and sound of it too, you’ll find a pre-order link later in this post.

A novel of second chances and blossoming communities from the author of The Lighthouse Bookshop. 

Successful landscape architect Luisa MacGregor has finally got the green light to go ahead with a charity project she’s been working on for years: taking parcels of land in deprived areas and building gardens that can involve the community.
 
Arriving in a rundown seaside town on the north-west coast of Cumbria, she realises that her work is going to be cut out for her. But, along with Cas, a local PE teacher, and Harper, a teen whose life has taken a wrong turn, she is determined to get the garden up and running.
 
So when the community comes together and the garden starts to grow, she feels her luck might have changed. Can she grow good things on this rocky ground? And might love blossom along the way…?

Pre-order link: The Forgotten Garden

Sharon started her career as an entertainment journalist, writing non-fiction books about film and television. She is also the author of multiple children’s books. Sharon and her husband live in a small village in northern Cumbria. She can be found on Twitter @sharongosling