Maggie is recovering from a stroke in her overgrown and neglected garden in wealthy Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tristan, a landscape architect, is rebuilding the garden next door for the new homeowners. He spies Maggie through a crack in the stone wall between the two properties, and is intrigued by her beauty and her strong will as she tries to learn how to speak and walk again.
The affair between Tristan and Maggie rejuvenates both of them, and Maggie's neglected garden thrives. Night Gardening is a story about the healing power of love, but it's also a romantic tale about passion blooming in life's later years.
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With the vocal abilities of Dick Hill, Swann's mundane story is transformed into an enjoyable and moderately engrossing examination of an ill-fated romance between 60-somethings. What at first sounds like a melodramatic love story becomes a bittersweet love affair through Hill's able voice. With an adept vocal style, Hill takes the listener on a voyeuristic tour of the lush gardens of neighbors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and presents the nuances of this delicate relationship with ease and simplicity, turning Swann's awkward and sometimes unbelievable story into light pleasure. H.L.S. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine
About the Author
E. L. Swann is the pseudonym used by award-winning children's book author Kathryn Lasky. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband.
