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    Audiobook (abridged)6 hours

    The Savage Garden

    Written by Mark Mills

    Narrated by Jamie Glover

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    About this audiobook

    The No.1 bestselling novel and Richard & Judy Summer Read: a haunting tale of murder, love and lost innocence for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Jed Rubenfeld

    In 1958, Adam Strickland, a young Cambridge student, travels to Villa Docci in Tuscany to study a sixteenth-century garden. Designed and laid out by a grieving husband to the memory of his dead wife, it is a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills and classical inscriptions.

    But tragedy has hit the Docci family more recently. The German occupation during World War Two had a devastating impact on them, and the tensions between collaborators and partisans were played out within their own tight circle.

    Adam is fascinated by the Doccis and increasingly aware that there are dangerous secrets hidden within the family domain.The garden itself starts to exercise a powerful influence over his imagination, its iconography seeming to point to some deeper, darker truth than was first apparent. And what really lay behind a killing at the villa towards the end of the war?

    Past and present, love and intrigue, intertwine in an evocative mystery which vividly captures the experience of an innocent abroad in the uncertain world of post-War Italy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 6, 2007
    ISBN9780007277810
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    The Savage Garden
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    Mark Mills

    Mark Mills graduated from Cambridge University in 1986. He has lived in both Italy and France, and has written for the screen. His first novel, ‘The Whaleboat House’, won the 2004 Crime Writer's Association for Best Novel by a debut author. ‘The Savage Garden’ received stunning reviews and was a No 1 bestseller. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.

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      The 'Savage Garden' is a wonderful book, filled with the kind of melancholic beauty of a paradise lost. The story evolves along a Renaissance garden in Tuscany whose first owner had committed a terrible crime. In the fountains, sculptures, groves and terraces of the harden lay hidden clues to his crime. It is 4 centuries later that a young art student deciphers the many layers - art historical, literal, criminological - and finds out about an unspoken tragedy in the family of the garden's present owners. Every minute spent on listening to the brilliantly read audio book is a minute of wonder, suspense and delight! The book is - like the garden of the villa Docci - a cabinet of masterfully arranged and beautifully presented curiosities.