A Casterglass Garden

Kate Hewitt

Feb 2022 · Keeping Up with the Penryns Book 2 · Tule Publishing

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Meet the Penryns…

The Penryn family have always been eccentric—living in a dilapidated castle in the wilds of Cumbria with an orchid-mad father and a classicist mother who likes to re-enact Greek myths, who wouldn’t be? Penniless and proud, Walter Penryn refuses to give up his birthright—until taxes, bills, and the need for a new roof force him to reconsider.

Now the family is restoring the castle, and Olivia Penryn is in charge of reviving the once-profitable garden. Nursing a broken heart and a guilty conscience, Olivia longs to lose herself in roses and lavender, but she’s filled with doubt. She’s never handled a project this massive. When Olivia hires the gorgeous Will Turner to help with landscaping, her bruised heart begins to heal—and hope.

A widower and father of two, Will has plenty of his own problems. Is he strong enough to take on Olivia’s? As his children become attached to this loving, ethereal beauty, he wonders if their wounded hearts can blossom like the flowers surrounding them—or will hidden secrets and old mistakes cost them a second chance at happiness?

Ratings and reviews

This is a series about the Penryn family who own Casterglass Castle in Cumbria. Each book features a different sibling's romance, set against an overarching story of trying to save the castle. This book concerns Olivia. Shy, quiet and self-effacing, she worked at a garden centre in Leeds until a disastrous romance with a married man sent her fleeing home. Now she's been charged with restoring/transforming 30 acres of unloved grounds in a matter of months on no budget and with no assistance, other than a few hours of her nephew's time every few weeks. Fortuitously Olivia meets Will Turner in the local pub one night. Will is a landscape gardener, although since his move from Norfolk to Cumbria he has spent more time doing mundane gardening and fencing than the grand projects he envisaged. Enthralled by Olivia's rough sketches of the Secret Garden she envisages, Will invites himself along to view the gardens and gets a part-time job helping Olivia. But Will is a widower with two small children, whose wife only recently died, he's not in the market for romance, and after nearly destroying a marriage Olivia is guarding her heart this time. If creating a secret garden in the grounds of a dilapidated castle, cute moppets and irritating siblings is your cup of tea then I think this will be right up your street. Ideal for lovers of Katie Fforde, Sue Moorcroft and Milly Johnson. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

This is the second book in this fun series all set around Casterglass Castle and the Penryn siblings who call it home This is Olivia's story she is the quite shy retiring member of the family who has come home to lick her wounds after she had an affair with a married man a man she never knew was married Unable to handle the fact she could have destroyed a family she has retreated to the family home With her gardening background she is given the job if building a secret garden on the family estate only problem is she has to do it with no help and no money That is when she meets Will Turner he is a landscape gardener and a new widower to two children He has been making ends meet with basic gardening and see this as his opportunity to do what he really wants to Can two damaged people find what they need with one another.

The second book in the Keeping Up with the Penryns series. A Casterglass Garden by Kate Hewitt. I enjoyed the setting of this book. The character development and the storyline really pulled me in. Looking forward to reading the next book in this series.