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FIRST LINE FRIDAY

Happy Friday & welcome to First Line Friday hosted at Reading is my Super Power! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Today I’m delighted to feature the first line of The Garden by Nick Newman. This is a new to me author and I look forward to getting into it.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A darkly beautiful, eerie, hypnotic novel about two elderly sisters living alone at the edge of the world.

In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. Evelyn and Lily have only ever known each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know. Each day is spent in languid service to their home: tending the bees, planting the crops, and dutifully following the instructions of the almanac written by their mother.

When a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the center of their isolated grounds, their once-solitary lives are irrevocably disrupted. Who is he? Where did he come from? And most importantly, what does he want?

As suspicions gather and allegiances falter, Evelyn and Lily are forced to confront the dark truths about themselves, the garden, and the world as they’ve known it.

  1. G.P. Putnam’s Sons
  2. Publication date February 18, 2025

FIRST LINE(S)

Somebody had moved the beehive. Evelyn couldn’t understand how it had happened. It was at a slight angle to the others, like it had been shoved, and beneath each of its wooden feet there was a shallow red trench in the earth. An animal? A storm? It couldn’t have been.

Does this sound like one you’d add to your reading list? Thank you for your visit today.

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By deanne01

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18 replies on “First Line Friday”

Great book! Here is my book: Hearts of Fire Eight Women in the Underground Church and their Stories of Costly Faith foreword by Gracie Burnham and written by Voice of the Martyrs! I haven’t started reading it yet, but it was in my TBR pile and thought I would use it! So, here is the first lines:

Foreword

I am humbled to be asked to write a foreword for such a book as this. I would not begin to group myself with these stalwart women of the faith.

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Happy Saturday!
I’m currently reading Virginia Company Bride by Gabrielle Meyer. It’s book one in her American Brides novella collection. So far, so good!

James Fort, Virginia
October 1608
It seemed a shame to Anne Burras that her mistress had endured months of the ocean travel just to die before reaching Virginia.
I hope you have a blessed weekend full of rest and good reading! 🙂❤️📚

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Happy weekend, Nicole. I have this one on my tbr shelf but haven’t had a chance to start it yet. With your comment of its first lines, I think I’d like to move it up on my lust as it sounds so good.

Happy reading weekend, hope you’re enjoying and getting lots of reading done!

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