Susanna Kearsley

The Rose Garden

Synopsis

When Eva’s filmstar sister Katrina dies, she leaves California and returns to Trelowarth, Cornwall , where they spent their childhood summers, to scatter Katrina’s ashes and in doing so return her to the place where she belongs.

But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past, as well as those from a time long before her own. For the house where she so often stayed as a child is home not only to her old friends the Halletts, but also to the people who had lived there in the eighteenth century. When Eva finally accepts that she is able to slip between centuries and see and talk to the inhabitants from hundreds of years ago, she soon finds herself falling for Daniel Butler, a man who lived – and died – long before she herself was born.

Eva begins to question her place in the present, and in laying her sister to rest, comes to realise that she too must decide where she really belongs, choosing between the life she knows and the past she feels so drawn towards.

A thrilling, haunting and deeply romantic story powerfully told by an engaging heroine. The Cornish background is enchanting and beautifully evoked.


— Rachel Hore, Bestselling author of A Place of Secrets

Videos

Watch Happily Ever After curator Joyce Lamb interview me about The Rose Garden.

“It was actually, oddly enough, my sister’s death from 7 years ago that started that novel… In a way it helped me heal from that.”

Did You Know…

In doing the research for this book, I was generously assisted by Rebecca and Stewart Pocock of Pocock’s Roses and the Cornish Rose Company.

Visit their website (and order their roses) to view more.

Gallery

My novels are set in real locations, and doing the on-site research is an essential part of my writing process. Here are some of my photos.

Virtual Tour

These were the “stops” on my virtual book tour to mark the publication of The Rose Garden in the U.S. in October, 2011. Thanks so much to all the bloggers who generously hosted me, and to Beth Pehlke at Sourcebooks for arranging everything.

Check out my other books, including more behind-the-scenes info and images.

There's always more to the story. Sign up here for Susanna's newsletter.

There’s always more to the story. Sign up here for Susanna’s newsletter.