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| Charlecote Park: Warwick CV35 9ER, UK |
The library had a spring book display with the whimsical name of: The Cover Was Green, and from it I chose Geoff Nicholson's
A Knot Garden.(By the way this link does not show the cover of the paperback edition that I got at the library.) This is a mystery story centering on the death of Richard Wisden a garden designer and minor TV celebrity. The biggest challenge in reading this story was that ever changing first person narration. A collection of characters who each tell their stories all interconnect to form the "knot" of the plot. Imagine a time when you have tried to pull apart a tangled necklace chain or wayward ball of yarn and just when you think you have got the right part to pull and unravel the whole mess you discover that you seem further from the solution than when you started. No spoilers here except to say that by the end all is revealed.
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Knot garden as viewed
from the dining room. |
I had the opportunity to visit in Warwickshire county at the end of April and visited the National Trust property of
Charlecote Park. There in the rear of the property on the edge of the river Avon was a beautiful knot garden as pictured here glimpsed out of the dining room window. The grounds were lovely and everything was blooming. A far cry from the slow start to spring back home in New England.
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Primroses in a container garden
lining the entryway. |
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| Thatched cottage outbuilding. |
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