Paperbark Hill
Maya Linnell
Reviewed by Helen
I love the McIntyre family and I have thoroughly enjoyed spending time with them and being back with them, this time we see how Diana is coping with the huge change in her and her four boy’s lives, times change for Diana but her dream of a flower farm are moving ahead, but when she loses her mentor, Colin what will happen now? will someone else step up to help.
Diana and her boys have coped well in the last eighteen months her family have been a big help and her flower farm is moving ahead her dahlias are growing but how will she cope now without Colin to help her, in steps Colin’s son Ned returning with his two young children to sort out his father’s farm and estate. Diana is taken with this handsome man and is thrilled with the knowledge he has with plants and asks him to help her for a few months.
Ned leads a nomadic life with his two young kids and when tragedy brings him home, he is not sure what he will find it is a long time since he has been home and there are a few changes that shock him, but when he meets Diana there is a spark and maybe a pull to stop roaming and picking up locum work as a pharmacist and maybe look to the future.
I loved this story so much it is beautifully written with emotion, it is heartwarming and heartfelt at the same time as Diana and Ned cope with grief, and their growing feelings for each other, add in six children between them, one teenager who is finding it hard at the moment and a mother who is also struggling and this book becomes a must read. I cried tears both happy and sad as Diana and Ned go through a few ups and downs to find the happiness, love and joy that they so deserved. I also have to mention the gorgeous flowers described in this story, I could almost smell those beautiful bouquets and posies that bought Ned and Diana together. Thank you Maya Linnell for another keeper.
My thanks to Allen & Unwin for my copy to read and review.
Diana and her boys have coped well in the last eighteen months her family have been a big help and her flower farm is moving ahead her dahlias are growing but how will she cope now without Colin to help her, in steps Colin’s son Ned returning with his two young children to sort out his father’s farm and estate. Diana is taken with this handsome man and is thrilled with the knowledge he has with plants and asks him to help her for a few months.
Ned leads a nomadic life with his two young kids and when tragedy brings him home, he is not sure what he will find it is a long time since he has been home and there are a few changes that shock him, but when he meets Diana there is a spark and maybe a pull to stop roaming and picking up locum work as a pharmacist and maybe look to the future.
I loved this story so much it is beautifully written with emotion, it is heartwarming and heartfelt at the same time as Diana and Ned cope with grief, and their growing feelings for each other, add in six children between them, one teenager who is finding it hard at the moment and a mother who is also struggling and this book becomes a must read. I cried tears both happy and sad as Diana and Ned go through a few ups and downs to find the happiness, love and joy that they so deserved. I also have to mention the gorgeous flowers described in this story, I could almost smell those beautiful bouquets and posies that bought Ned and Diana together. Thank you Maya Linnell for another keeper.
My thanks to Allen & Unwin for my copy to read and review.
5 stars
Published May 31st 2022 by Allen & Unwin
