The Twilight Garden

A Novel

By: Sara Nisha Adams

Narrated by: Shaheen Khan, Mikhail Sen, Emily Stride

Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List.

In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a neglected community garden. It was a beautiful thing once, a little oasis in a bustling city for neighbors by day and the local foxes at twilight. Now it’s overgrown and neglected, an empty patch of greenery lost to time.

Once a sanctuary, the garden’s gate is now firmly closed. And that’s exactly how Winston at No.79 likes it – anything to avoid Bernice, who has moved in next door with her young son. Their houses may share the garden, but they’re not exactly neighborly.

But then a mysterious parcel drops on Winston’s doormat. It contains no note, only a bundle of photographs of the garden in bloom many years ago—vibrant with flowers, filled with people from every corner of the community. Is someone trying to tell them something? The seed of an idea is planted…

Somewhere out there, a secret gardener made a decades-old promise to keep the community’s spirit alive. Now it’s time for The Twilight Garden to come out of hibernation.

Characters were realistic and yet interesting

The timeline back and forth is hard for a brain as old as mine at 79.

Amazing

This is a wonderful reflection of friendship and love. I rarely get teary eyed, but it happened more than once.

Lovely story

The Reading List was one of my top 5 last year so I preordered this as soon as I saw it. The story is lovely, well drawn characters from then and now with a unifying purpose, but not as spectacular as Reading List. Performances were excellent.

Such a warm and wonderful story

Great characters in a quaint garden setting. Moving between Maya and Alma creating a place for their neighbors to gather and Winston and Bernice battling for ownership of a neglected garden you find out just how important it is to feel like you belong to something or someone.

Right down my alley!

I love gardening to start with. I’ve been to England and Scotland and seen gardens tucked away in the city, which I find compelling and I always wish I could go in and explore them. I was taken by the people who lived by and shared the garden. The variety of ages of the people and their differences and interactions. My Dad had dementia so I understood what was happening to Alma. I’m getting older myself so I related to Mia’s aging and needing to move away. I love a good gardening related novel and this is one!