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But Sian’s good intentions are torpedoed one glorious summer’s evening with the arrival ofGus Berresford. One-time explorer and full-time heartbreaker, Gus is ridiculously exciting, wonderfully glamorous and a completely inappropriate love interest for a single mother.
But she and Gus have met before. And, despite Sian's best intentions, it isn't long before she's falling for him all over again ...
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Acknowledgements
As always, it takes almost as many people to create a book as it does patches to make a double-size quilt, and inevitably I will forget some of these people and get things wrong. I fervently apologise for both these things. I don’t do it on purpose; I do it because I am very forgetful! But below are the people I haven’t forgotten, and I thank them most sincerely for their help and inspiration.
To everyone, past and present, who is involved in the Rodborough Real Gardens and Sculpture Trail. Of course we had to appear in a book!
Alan Ford, who introduced me to the heroic and inspirational Pascal Mychalysin, Master Mason of Gloucester Cathedral.
Marion Mako and Tim Mowl, garden historians and extremely entertaining lunch companions.
Ori Hellerstein, artisan baker, who told me about three-phase electricity amongst more bread-based things.
Sarah Watts, garden designer and wonderful source of information.
Tim Hancock and Rebecca Flint of Tortworth Plants, and Derry Watkins of Special Plants Nursery.
Sue Devine, guide at Gloucester Cathedral, whose knowledge could fill several books.
Richard Davis, brother of the wonderful writer and friend Jo Thomas, who knows an awful lot about betting and how sometimes people do win!
Dr Annie Grey and her team for the wonderful programme Victorian Bakers, which was part of the inspiration for this book.
All my wonderful team at Century – Selina Walker, Georgina Hawtrey-Woore, Aslan Byrne, Chris Turner and Sarah Ridley, and Charlotte Bush and her team.
My wonderful agent Bill Hamilton. Crème de la crème of agents.
Richenda Todd, copy-editor worth double her weight in rubies.
To all my writer friends who keep me going, thank you.
First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Century, Arrow Books, Random House
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