The Forgotten Garden

A novel of second chances and blossoming communities from the author of The Lighthouse Bookshop.

Successful landscape architect Luisa MacGregor has finally got the green light to go ahead with a charity project she’s been working on for years: taking parcels of land in deprived areas and building gardens that can involve the community.

Arriving in a rundown seaside town on the north-west coast of Cumbria, she realises that her work is going to be cut out for her. But, along with Cas, a local PE teacher, and Harper, a teen whose life has taken a wrong turn, she is determined to get the garden up and running.

So when the community comes together and the garden starts to grow, she feels her luck might have changed. Can she grow good things on this rocky ground? And might love blossom along the way…?

Praise for Sharon Gosling’s first novel, The House Beneath the Cliffs:

‘A wonderfully wise and beautifully written story about finding the courage to start over … I loved it!’ Isabelle Broom

‘A compelling read with a dramatic sense of place and a caring community at its heart’ Heidi Swain, author of A Taste of Home

‘A gorgeously remote and romantic great escape, brimming with foodie passion, friendship and heart’ Laura Kemp, author of A Year of Surprising Acts of Kindness

‘A magical story set in Scotland…An inspiring book of second chances’ Woman’s Own

‘A story to make you long to visit our glorious coastlines’ Prima

‘With a romance that gently simmers, a plot that flows as fast as the North Sea tides, and some gentle reminders of the need to protect our oceans, The House Beneath the Cliffs provides the perfect holiday getaway’ Lancashire Post

‘Thrilling & romantic’ The People’s Friend

‘An inspiring book of second chances’ Woman

‘Packed full of warmth’ Cumbria Life