The Butterfly Garden by Sophie Anderson - Review

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Today it’s my stop on the tour for *The Butterfly Garden by Sophie Anderson. Set on the beautiful rugged Cornish coastline and also the warm beautiful shores of Costa Rica. Full of secrets, friendship, and guilt.

The Butterfly Garden by Sophie Anderson - Review

Book Description

I blamed my son for the death of my daughter…

When twenty-five-year-old Erin loses the man she loves, she flees London for Cornwall and takes a job at Hookes End, a huge house clinging precariously to the Cornish cliffs. The owner, frail reclusive novelist and butterfly enthusiast Maggie, has kept the curtains of her dusty house drawn for many years. But as she and Erin spend evenings together by the fireside, sharing stories of the past, Erin feels her shattered heart begin to heal. In return, Erin agrees to help Maggie find her long lost family before it is too late.

Years ago, Maggie’s son Lucas ran away to the other side of the world after the death of her daughter ripped the family apart. Maggie is desperate to see Lucas again – there is something she needs him to know.

Erin wants to help Maggie find peace so she vows to track down her lost son. But when at last she finds Lucas, in a far- away place of searing heat and pearly sands, it becomes clear that he is hiding something too.

As Erin grows closer to Lucas and unravels the webs of deceit entangling mother and son, she learns about the terrible tragedy that changed their lives forever: the night when a little girl in a fairy nightdress went missing. But with Maggie’s time fast running out, is it too late for them to find the forgiveness they need to move on?

What I Thought

Heart-wrenching, beautiful friendships, dark family secrets and dreamy settings. The Butterfly Garden has it all.

When things go wrong with her relationship with a married man, Erin flees back home to her mum and dad in Cornwall. Now she’s the talk of the village with no job to her name. But she sees an advert for “eyes wanted” from recluse Maggie, an elderly detective novelist and butterfly enthusiast who is slowly going blind from her brain tumor. With no other job options coming her way she takes up the post of helping, Maggie with her latest novel.

The novel that Erin is typing up for Maggie is not her usual type of book. It’s Maggie’s life. Erin learns of the dark family secrets and why Maggie is not in contact with her long-lost son Lucas. Who now lives in Costa Rica.

Maggie wants to make amends with Lucas before she dies, and Erin is the one to help her.

Wonderfully written, and touching on difficult subjects the author draws you in emotionally. It’s brilliant and I can’t wait to read another of Sophie’s books!

Thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for my copy

Author bio

Sophie Anderson enjoyed a career in TV production in London before working with her husband to set up an online software business where she wrote the marketing content. But neither scratched that creative itch to tell a story, so she enrolled on a writing course and wrote her first novel The Butterfly Garden. She lives in Sussex with her husband, four children, a cocker spaniel and two cats.

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