Description: "For fans of Sarah Addison Allen, Aimee Bender, and Alice Hoffman, The Night Garden is a luminous novel of love, forgiveness, and the possibilities that arise when you open your heart. Nestled in the bucolic town of Green Valley in upstate New York, the Pennywort farm appears ordinary, yet at its center lies something remarkable: a wild maze of colorful gardens that reaches beyond the imagination. Local legend says that a visitor can gain answers to life's most difficult problems simply by walking through its lush corridors. Yet the labyrinth has never helped Olivia Pennywort, the garden's beautiful and enigmatic caretaker. She has spent her entire life on her family's land, harboring a secret that forces her to keep everyone at arm's length. But when her childhood best friend, Sam Van Winkle, returns to the valley, Olivia begins to question her safe, isolated world and wonders if she at last has the courage to let someone in. As she and Sam reconnect, Olivia faces a difficult question: Is the garden maze that she has nurtured all of her life a safe haven or a prison? Praise for Lisa Van Allen's The Wishing Thread "Reader to reader, knitter to knitter: You're going to love this book."--Debbie Macomber "Whimsical. great for fans of Sarah Addison Allen and Alice Hoffman."--Library Journal Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more"--"In the Pennywort Gardens, there is a garden of edible flowers, a garden meant for touching, and one in which the flowers only bloom at night. It is even said that there is a garden that brings back memories you had forgotten. Since her mother's death 5 years ago, Olivia has been carrying on her legacy, caring for Pennywort Gardens and running an informal program that provides safe haven to women in exchange for their help with the lush gardens. The townspeople hate having what they call a "halfway house" around, and Olivia's neighbors are convinced she's using more than her allotment of water in a drought year, and keep calling the police. But Olivia has secrets of her own and needs everyone to just keep their distance. When a childhood friend, now a cop, is assigned to investigate the neighbor's complaints, he takes more than a passing interest. And one of the women visitors may have a secret from Olivia's past that could change everything. Soon, Olivia is going to have to face up to the promises made in the garden so long ago"--

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