Book description
To tell a patient they are about to die is never the easiest of tasks.
When the patient is thirty-five, a woman and exceptionally beautiful,
the task is even harder. In the winter of 1934 Nancy Leigh Cameron
learns that she has only one more year to live. She is famous,
sought-after, and living a life of deep inner loneliness. Her husband,
Senator Jack Cameron, is cold and self-seeking. He needs Nancy because
she can help him to become President. Her father, Chips O'Shaughnessy,
ebullient Irish mayor of Boston, loves Nancy, but also needs her
socially desirable marriage to last so that he can further his own
career. When Nancy learns that she is to die she decides that she will
live her last year for herself. Leaving New York for the exclusive hotel
of Sanfords on the flower-filled island of Madeira, she embarks on the
love affair of a lifetime. She has no idea that Ramon Sanford, the man
she loves, is her father's bitterest enemy, and that their passion will
unlock dark family secrets and tragedies that have lain buried for more
than a generation. Set in the 1930s The Flower Garden is a grand love
story in the tradition of Brief Encounter and An Affair to Remember.
