Description
Can a woman who has been dead for over one hundred years help Mark come to terms with the grief he feels over his mother’s death and find the woman he’s always loved? Love the Gift is a love story with a difference. It’s set in contemporary times and in 1905. Mark visits his best friend Beth at her family home in the New South Wales Highlands. The house has been turned into a Boutique Hotel. Mark occupies the room that belonged to Beth’s great-great-aunt, Charlotte, who died in 1905. The room has been kept just as Charlotte left it. On his first evening there, he steps into the walled garden that leads off the bedroom and is shocked to find he is in a sunny afternoon in 1905, with Charlotte in the garden to greet him. Is it a dream, or is it really happening? It’s beyond Mark’s comprehension. When he discovers it’s only three days until Charlotte’s death, he becomes desperate to save her. In the end it is Charlotte and Beth who save him.
London Renner @brooke10_578
June 5, 2021
4
This is a short, bittersweet, read, which perfectly fitted a lunch break. Told, unusually, from a male point of view, it's the story of Mark - adrift and discontented, after the death of his mother, he goes to visit an old friend, Beth, at the beautiful, boutique, hotel she owns in the country. Never having been to Australia, I found the author's vivid descriptions of the countryside around the hotel, and it's gorgeous, mature, gardens very atmospheric, in that, I could almost feel I was there, standing in the old-fashioned, walled garden, smelling the scent of the blooms, and enjoying their lush beauty.