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    The Rose Garden

    By Susanna Kearsley

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    New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!

    "A thrilling, haunting, and deeply romantic story."—Rachel Hore, internationally bestselling author of The Memory Garden

    "Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough."

    Eva Ward returns to the only place she truly belongs, the old house on the Cornish coast, seeking happiness in memories of childhood summers. There she finds mysterious voices and hidden pathways that sweep her not only into the past, but also into the arms of a man who is not of her time.

    But Eva must confront her own ghosts, as well as those of long ago. As she begins to question her place in the present, she comes to realize that she too must decide where she really belongs.

    From Susanna Kearsley, author of the New York Times bestseller The Winter Sea and a voice acclaimed by fans of Gabaldon, du Maurier, and Niffenegger alike, The Rose Garden is a haunting exploration of love, family, the true meaning of home, and the ties that bind us together.
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    Release dateOct 1, 2011
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    The Rose Garden
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    Susanna Kearsley

    New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley is a former museum curator who loves restoring the lost voices of real people to the page, often in twin-stranded stories that interweave present and past. Her award-winning novels have been published in translation in more than 25 countries. She lives near Toronto.

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    • 4/5
      Once again, Susanna Kearsley has secured her place in my top favorite authors.

      Although a little slow going at first, Kearsley paints a grand landscape of a quaint seaside village in Cornwall, all down to rock, foamy seas, and lush hillsides. Very reminescent of DuMaurier's style in the opening of 'Rebecca'. The details arent what pulled me into the story but it helped me understand why the characters loved it so. I would say that the author has a good deal of her heart there as well.

      The notion of time travel is an exciting one. Surround this with loss, love, suspense, history, family, a smuggler's ship, betrayal, tomfoolery, mystery, and a surprise twist in the end...well, you cannot go wrong.

      The sweet and quiet of our two main characters had me swooning. These two, deep feeling, yet also amiable and giving nothing away on the surface. The author's writing afforded the reader a slow simmer that one prayed would happily boil over. Kearsley does not disappoint.

      Without spoiling it for you, I really liked the end. Really, really. The reader is left, not with a neatly wrapped package and tidy bow, but more of a happy, bottomless grab bag of possibilities.

      In other words, a sequel could easily be written (Hello, Ms. Kearsley!)...and one I would no doubt purchase in a hurry.
    • 4/5
      I found The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley to be a satisfying romance story with the help of a time travel plot and the lovely backdrop of the Cornish Coast. Eva returns to Trelowarth after a 20 year absence. This was where she and her family spent their summers when she was young. Remembering this as a happy place, she decided that this is where she would scatter her sister’s ashes. She also looked forward to reconnecting with the family that owned Trelowarth, Claire, her stepson Mark and stepdaughter Susan. What Eva found was that time existed on a special plane for some in this small corner of Cornwall and she was soon travelling back to the 1700’s and falling in love with Daniel Butler, a smuggler that lived in Trelowarth. At first she believed she was hallucinating but she soon realizes this is actually happening and that her desire is to be Daniel on a permanent basis. I have mixed feelings on how the time travel aspect was handled. The author appeared to have thought of some of the questionable details and come up with a solution. The clothing was an interesting problem as Eva continuously arrived in the past wearing modern clothing and returning to the present in 18th century dresses. One of the 18th century characters bemoans the fact that she needs the wardrobe of a queen to cover all the lost dresses. But the larger details, such as the 18th century characters seeming to accept a woman appearing and disappearing right in front of them with barely a raised eyebrow didn’t ring true. Also they seemed to have little curiosity about the future. The author excelled in her descriptions of the Cornish coast and I enjoyed that part of the book the most. Well I did not find The Rose Garden to be a book that swept me away, overall, it was light, easy to read, and had enough content to hold my interest.
    • 4/5
      4 stars

      This is the second Susanna Kearsley book I’ve read and she’s quickly becoming a favorite of mine. Her writing style is simply beautiful and has a definite talent for writing fascinating stories. I’m not usually a fan of wordy books but she does such an amazing job of describing the simplest of things you can’t help but love it.

      One of my favorites:

      “And at the window of the room the cold November rains slid down the glass and cast their shifting shadows in a room that could no longer hold the light.”

      Rose Garden tells the story of Eva and her struggles to cope with the death of her sister Katrina. Katrina had requested to be cremated and have her ashes scattered; Eva decides it would be most fitting for her to scatter them where the two of them once belonged: Cornwall, England. She travels there and stays with her two childhood friends Mark and Susan. During her first night there, she wakes to the sound of two men having a conversation only to find there weren’t any men in the house. She then begins to see things that others cannot and is unable to explain it. When she finds herself thrown back in time, she meets Daniel Butler, a man who was a part of the Jacobite Uprising. Knowing what she does about the outcome of said event, she finds it difficult to not disclose information to him that could essentially change the future. The more time spent with Daniel, the closer she becomes to him, as she finds herself bonding with him as two people who have both lost loved ones. Eva’s only concern is for her inability to control when she goes back in time and how the two of them can ever have a life together based on this instability.

      Lovely novel. I’ll definitely be picking up more of her books in the future.
    • 4/5
      This story had a pretty good plot but too much description of details and I skimmed lots of paragraphs throughout. The action at the beginning was slow until it started in on the time travel and got rather interesting. Eva returns to the place of he childhood summers where she fades back in time and meets Daniel.
    • 2/5
      After Eva's sister dies, she brings her ashes back to Trelowarth House, in Wales, where they had spent their summers as children. Soon, odd things begin happening; Eva hears voices in empty rooms and then she keeps finding herself in the same place, but 300 years in the past, when Trelowarth House was owned by an infamous group of smugglers. So, I was surprised to find a time-travel romance but, hey, smugglers are almost as fun as pirates and this story came complete with hidden caves and unscrupulous customs officers. And the writing was good enough not to get in the way of the story. In the end, however, the flaws outweighed the fun of this novel. I'll set aside the idea of going back to the eighteenth century to find a boyfriend, but what ended up bothering me about this story was the protagonist's passiveness, and the careless way the author explained time travel. Eva takes no real action until the final chapters of the book and is happy to pretend to be mute for much of the story. How the author handled the questions of both how time travel worked and how the inhabitants of the past handled having someone show up claiming to be from the future irked me. If you were involved in dangerous political matters involving succession that could well result in you and your family's imprisonment or execution and someone showed up from the future, would you ask them who the next king was? Would you be curious about the future, or would you simply decided that it was better not to know, thanks anyway? Would everyone around you go along with this? And even though dismissing witchcraft out of hand is easier nowadays, would mental illness occur to you as a more likely explanation for a stranger claiming to be from the future than that she really was from the future? Time travel is such an interesting idea and the book never explores any of that, with everyone being bizarrely uninterested in the topic.So while I can't help but like this book for having smugglers in it, in the end it missed the mark, lacking both adventure and characters with a healthy sense of curiosity.
    • 4/5
      Charming, but not as engaging as The Winter Sea. I enjoyed reading it, but wouldn't necessarily read it again.
    • 4/5
      Another fine time-travel romance from the author of Mariana. At first I was afraid this book would be a repeat of Mariana, since it begins with a similar premise -- woman comes to an old house and begins being transported back to another time. In this case, the house is in Cornwall and Eva, the heroine, is unpredictably set down from time to time in 1715, when smugglers and Jacobites were at odds with George I and the local constabulary. Eva becomes more and more involved with the people in the past, and just when the readers despairs of her resolving the situation, an intriguing plot twist wraps it all up. Kearsley is one of those authors one wishes were a bit more prolific -- happy to see she has a new book out. If you like Diana Gabaldon and would enjoy a similar tale, but one a bit milder in the sex and violence area and a lot shorter, I recommend Susanna Kearsley. (Note: I actually listened to this book on Audible; the reading was excellent as well.)
    • 5/5
      I love Susanna Kearsley's books, they take you on a ride of romance,mystery and adventure. Onto her next book!
    • 5/5
      Utterly brilliant. Kearsley seems to have a talent in weaving past and future without it seeming disjointed. I enjoyed the vagueness when it came to explaining the time travel - it just was happening, without being bogged down by overblown explanations, somewhat similar to the Time Travelers Wife in a way. I loved Eva, and all the fully fleshed out secondary characters. The story starts with a death, but the bittersweet undertones resonate throughout the rest of the story without bringing it down. Loved. Will reread.
    • 4/5
      Great book! Mystical and time travelling characters were interesting and engaging. Loved the characters and their motivations. Loved the movement between the 1700s and present day. A great read!
    • 4/5
      I liked this book. As I have found with many books lately, it dragged a little in the beginning, but I eventually got into the characters. I think I enjoyed the 1700s portion more, but I think that was what the author had intended. I don't feel it was as good as Mariana though. That book really hooked me and I liked both time periods equally. I am turning into quite the Kearsley fan lately. Her books seem to have everything I look for in a good story. I am looking forward to reading more from her.A solid 4 stars
    • 4/5
      After reading Winter Sea by this author, I went on to read The Rose Garden. There is something so interesting about the way this author writes. She took a topic I had no desire to read about and made it a great story.
    • 4/5
      Another great book by Susanna Kearsley! A wonderful magical time travel romance. Susanna Kearsley has a way writing that draws you right into the story with vivid imagery. I saw and felt what the characters were experiencing. This book may not have been as in depth as 'The Winter Sea', but it was still an excellent read in it's own right.
    • 5/5
      Magical realism at its best.I'm pretty fussy when it comes to magical realism, the balance between being believable and being silly is a fine line in my opinion. Susanna Kearsley was spot-on, however. Both elements, the present and the past, were perfectly joined, even blurring into one another. And the ending was brilliant.After the death of her vivacious sister, Eva returns to Trelowarth House, Cornwall, where the sisters had spent many wonderful childhood summers. It is twenty years on and Eva feels that her sister's ashes should be spread there amongst her favourite memories.Their childhood friends are still there, Mark and his sister, Susan, and their stepmother, Clare. Eva busies herself helping to realise Susan's dream of a tea room to attract tourists to the house and much needed income to the old place.When Eva slips back in time she finds herself in Trelowarth House still, but back in 1715, an era of uprising in favour of James Stewart. The house then belongs to Daniel and Jack Butler, who live there with Daniel's friend Fergal. Daniel and Jack own a ship, The Sally, and make a living by smuggling.Adapting to the ways of this time causes understandable problems for Eva with her modern views and American accent. She has problems dressing in the elaborate gowns and pinning her hair as befits the fashions of the time. She must also learn to cook the local foods, light fires and bring in water from the well.Eva has admirers in both times, Oliver in modern day Cornwall, and Daniel in the past. How is she going to resolve this dilemna? And how can this tale possibly end?The version I 'read' was an audible book, excellently narrated by Nicola Barber. She gave Fergal a great Irish accent (to my non-Irish ears) and Eva had a mild American twang. It was occasionally over-enunciated but all in all it was a pleasure to listen and I was sorry when the final line had been read.Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Modern time travel story of Eva, a young woman who has returned to Cornwall from California to scatter her sister's ashes. While there at Treloweth, the house she knew as a child, she becomes reacquainted with old friends and inadvertently travels back and forth in time to 1715. Unable to control her comings and goings from the past to the present, she befriends the beguiling owner of Treloweth, Daniel Butler, a Jacobite sympathizer and smuggler whom she falls in love with. At the same time she helps Daniel foil the local constable's attempts to arrest Daniel and his brother Jack for treason. This wasn't bad on audio, but the narrator's voice for Eva went back and forth from English to Canadian/American and it drove me crazy! I found this an evocative story but the actual romance between Daniel and Eva was oblique and had no overt passion to it, only skimming the surface. Another one keeping me at arms length, I just didn't feel the love. Although this book has gotten high praise, I preferred The Winter Sea over this one.
    • 4/5
      I do so enjoy Susanna Kearsley’s writing it flows so beautifully from one century to the next; her characters are so fully fleshed out and believable. This is a great time travel book with a wonderful story in both times. Eva comes to a place of her childhood to recover from losing her sister but soon after arriving odd things start to happen, at first she thinks she’s hallucinating, and then losing her mind, but then realization strikes that she is actually traveling through time. In the past she meets Daniel Butler, smuggler and rebel, the times she ends up in are full of danger and treachery but there is one shining light and that is Daniel Butler. The romance aspect was sweet with both Eva & Daniel still recovering from a loss and both slowly heal as they come together. I think Fergal (*sp audio) was my favorite character other than Eva he was so kind and witty. The twist at the end I didn’t see coming and actually rewound back to listen again it was so good!If you like time travel, historical fiction with a nice splash of romance, or a fan of Daphne DuMaurier or Diana Gabaldon I highly recommend this book and this author. I have become a huge fan of Susanna Kearsley and plan on reading everything she has ever written!Audio production: Nicola Barber was the narrator and I didn’t really like her attempt at accents I think it would have been better if she just stuck to the accent (guessing her real voice) she used when narrating the in between people talking. Since I had already listened to The Winter Sea I couldn’t help wishing Roslyn Landor had narrated this one too because she did such a great job with the accents in that one. It wasn’t awful and I still enjoyed the book very much but there were times the narration just wasn’t right. And I’m not saying I would never listen to this narrator again as long as she’s not doing accents especially an American accent.4 Stars
    • 5/5
      I just want to start off by saying I won this book in the Goodreads First Reads giveaway and it was sent to me by the publisher.This book was simply amazing! I didn't know if I would like it while I was reading the first chapter as I am not one for heartfelt weeping. The first chapter of the book talked about the characters loss of her sister. But as I moved into the second chapter I jumped right in feet first and didn't want to come up for air until the very end.The writer has a way of bringing the reader into her story. I felt as though I was sitting there on the sidelines watching this whole amazing story unfold right in front of me from start to finish. There was so much detail into the writing that it made everything so believable. There was definitely a lot of research that went into this to discuss the past of 300 years ago. This is the first book that I have read by Kearsley and will definitely not be the last!I did enjoy reading about the strength one sister had in overcoming her loss of another sister, the pain she had felt and the telling of her past with her family. I also enjoyed the time travel aspect of the story and her new found love for Daniel. This book also had a surprise twist at the end that I did not see coming. I love it when you think you got the story figured out and then you get surprised.I don't want to brag too much on the story and give it away. I think that if anyone that has a love of romance, time travel and coming of age stories, definitely pick this book up.
    • 5/5
      Warning: spoilers below!The Rose Garden is Susanna Kearsley at her best. Eva Ward is a publicist who comes to the Cornish coast to scatter the ashes of her recently-deceased sister. A house called Trelowarth was once the home of smugglers, and Eva finds herself drawn back into the 18th century where she meets a man named Daniel Butler and becomes associated with Jacobean plots.Daniel Butler is kind of a mystery as a character, because we only get to see him for short snatches of time. But I can definitely see how appealing he is as a hero. But other than that, the character development of this novel is good. Better than that, though, is the writing. Kearsley’s writing is smooth, and the romance aspect of the novel is neatly woven in—it’s not too strong, but we know where Eva’s heart lies.The plot is strong, too—Eva and the reader in the 21st century know what’s going to happen to the Jacobeans, but she is stuck in a hard place—does she say something to Daniel to stop him from becoming involved? Or does she say nothing and allow history to unfold itself? That is the underlying theme of this book, and one that Kearsley explores so well.
    • 3/5
      If you're not in a critical mood and looking for a historical romance with an element of time travel (there seems to be lots of time-traveling historicals of late, no?) then this book will fit the bill. However, some aspects of the book, for example the romance, were a bit far-fetched for me...although I guess I should expect that when there's time travel involved. I think the main reason why I didn't enjoy The Rose Garden as much as Kearsley's other work is that I've read a very similar premise in A Cottage by the Sea by Ciji Ware and I liked Ware's book much better. I couldn't help but make comparisons the entire time I was reading (both set in bankrupt historical estates on the Cornish coast). And while the premises did diverge, the similarity of the books kept me from enjoying The Rose Garden fully. If you're a Kearsley fan I'm sure you'll like the book for a quick and pleasing read, but I really would recommend Ciji Ware's novel to y'all too.
    • 4/5
      Coming to terms with the recent death of her sister, Eva decides to return to the place that holds a special place in both their hearts to scatter her sister's ashes. Fond childhood memories spent at Trelowarth brings a sense of calm and peace to Eva as she searches for a place to rest her lonely and searching spirit. The tranquility offered by this remote corner of the world suddenly is shattered by Eva's discovery that she somehow is able to travel back into the late 18the century and there she meets the dashing and mysterious inhabitants of Trelowarth. Unable to control when, where, and how she disappears between the time periods, Eva falls in love with the unlikeliest of people and begins to questions whether her heart is leading her to a time that is not her own, yet feels more like home than she has ever known.With any story that involves the ability to time travel, one does need to suspend reality for the duration of the book to enjoy the journey. The Rose Garden is no different. Putting aside the nearly comical ability of Eva to accept literally overnight that she has not gone insane or suffering from some form of mental delusion, but is truly traveling back hundreds of years, the story of her coming to know, and eventually love the people she meets back in time is enjoyable entertainment. The temporary suspension of belief is a definite necessity in order to enjoy this quick and whirlwind romp through two different times filled with colourful characters, a budding romance, and the answer to whether home is indeed where the heart is.
    • 4/5
      Eva returns to Cornwall with her sister's ashes. Invited to stay with childhood friends for a while, she settles in happily, but is disconcerted to be thrown back in time. When she returns, no time has passed. Going back and forth at random, she becomes involved with the then-owner of the house, a notorious smuggler.About two-thirds of the way through, I was convinced that it could not possibly end well. But it does, and with an unexpected revelation from an unlikely party.Not Kearsley's best work, but satisfying.
    • 4/5
      First Line: I lost my only sister in the last days of November.A devastated Eva Ward is given her sister's ashes by Katrina's husband, Bill, with the proviso that Eva take them to the place where his wife was happiest. Momentarily confused, Eva suddenly remembers Trelowarth House, a centuries-old manor house high on a hill overlooking the sea in Cornwall. She and her sister had been happy visiting there as children, and Katrina's first love lived there still.Welcomed to Trelowarth, Eva decides to spend the summer there, intending to find a local cottage to rent in the autumn, but almost immediately she finds herself seeing paths where none had existed and hearing voices in the adjacent room when no one is there. When she actually finds herself in Trelowarth House in 1715 and meeting its owner, Daniel Butler, Eva has to admit that these aren't simple hallucinations. Daniel, a successful smuggler, is secretly planning to join in a rebellion against the newly crowned King George. As he and Eva try to come to terms with Eva's time traveling, they fall in love. Eva has a decision to make: in which time does she truly belong?For me, Susanna Kearsley is the queen of romantic suspense. Her Cornish setting is wonderful and the perfect backdrop to both time periods. Twenty-first-century and eighteenth-century secondary characters add richness to the story, and have the added bonus of helping to tug the reader in both directions. When I was reading a modern segment, I wondered what was happening to the characters in the eighteenth century, and when I was back in their time, I wondered about the modern characters. Every chapter was engrossing.In some books featuring time travel, one period always seems to be stronger and more interesting than the other, but not in Kearsley's books. She knows how to keep a reader's interest throughout her story. I'm not known to read many novels in which a strong element of romance is present because too many writers think they have to include steamy sex scenes to convey how strongly the characters are in love. Kearsley knows how to convey strong emotions and physicality without having anything throb or glisten or heave.If you're in the mood for a story with a strong sense of place, a cast of wonderful characters, a plot with surprises, time travel and romance, I have just one piece of advice: Seek out The Rose Garden, and when you're done reading it, seek out the rest of Susanna Kearsley's novels.
    • 5/5
      I do love a good time travel novel and this is a good time travel novel. Eva Ward has just lost her beloved sister Katrina, and she takes her ashes to be scattered where they spent their childhood together - at Trelowarth in Cornwall. While there Eva starts experiencing very strange distortions in time - she finds herself at Trelowarth but in the 18th century.In order to enjoy this book you just need to totally suspend any sense of reality and logic and just go with the flow of the magical writing and the possibility of a love that spans two times and two worlds. If you stop trying to figure out how it could possibly work and just let the book be you will find yourself drawn into a truly wonderful story. The characters are interesting, the love story divine and the twist at the end - well I truly did not see that coming at all!So I invite you to come along to a special rose garden on the coast of Cornwall where you never know what might happen. At the least you will have a delightful reading experience lost in the magical world Susanna Kearsley creates.
    • 5/5
      Blurb: When Eva's film star sister Katrina dies, she leaves California and returns to Cornwall, where they spent their childhood summers, to scatter Katrina's ashes and in doing so return her to the place where she belongs. But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past, as well as those from a time long before her own. For the house where she so often stayed as a child is home not only to her old friends the Halletts, but also to the people who had lived there in the eighteenth century. When Eva finally accepts that she is able to slip between centuries and see and talk to the inhabitants from hundreds of years ago, she soon finds herself falling for Daniel Butler, a man who lived - and died - long before she herself was born. Eva begins to question her place in the present, and in laying her sister to rest, comes to realise that she too must decide where she really belongs, choosing between the life she knows and the past she feels so drawn towards.Review: Susanna Kearsley is one of my favourite authors. I haven't read a book of hers yet that I didn't like. The Rose Garden was very enjoyable. Full of lovely characters who felt so natural and real they could be your neighbours. I loved the story arc of slipping from this world into the past. Not many authors can pull off time travel, but Susanna Kearsley is a star at it. She has the touch which makes it so believable, and easy to accept. Whose it say it's not possible? LOLIf you enjoy rich descriptions, lovely details, a wealth of emotion, likable characters and an intriguing story, read The Rose Garden. I highly recommend it.
    • 4/5
      Well written, well paced, good story line.Caught my interest early and never let up, spend a Saturday afternoon and evening reading it.