Title: The Rose Grower
Author: Michelle de Kretser
Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance, Polictical
Rating: 10/10...fantabulous read, very beautiful to read
Summary: It is July 14, 1789, a date which will become infamous for the storming of the Bastille, and in the countryside around the small village of Montsignac in southwestern France, a man falls from the sky. This seemingly supernatural event marks the beginning of great and wrenching changes for the Saint-Pierre family, once aristocratic but now fallen on leaner times.
Excerpt:
June brings roses.
Roses that show carmine in the bud and open to reveal petals of the palest shell pink.
Roses in every shade of white: ivory, cream, parchment, chalk, snow, milk, pearl, bone.
Roses with nodding globular flowers, large as teacups.
What Maat thinks...: I absolutely loved this book, its got just about everything: romance, politics, intrigue, adventure, all set in post-revolutionary France. Kretser amazes me by her knowledge and the complexity of this book with a full cast of characters down to her knowledge of the garden. I almost cried at the end it was that good. Check it out!
