The Sleeping Garden
The True Story of The Lost Gardens of Heligan.
Winner of two Holyer an Goff Awards!
Class 2a Books for children of primary age & The Ann Trevenen cup awarded for authorship in Class 2, books for children and young adults 2021
Mabecron Books Ltd (17 April 2020) Hardback.
Coloured pencil, watercolour and digital media
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Read how ‘The Sleeping Garden’ came to be created in the introduction that never made the final pages
‘I can no longer live with the ghosts,’ he murmured as he locked the gates for the last time. The Sleeping Garden tells the true story of The Lost Gardens of Heligan, how a beautiful Cornish garden fell into neglect and silence following the outbreak of the Great War and how, in 1990, it was rediscovered and eventually brought back to vibrant and abundant life.
A very human story at the heart of a book filled with all the beauty and colour of Heligan then and now.
