3.5 ⭐⭐⭐✨
I'm struggling to rate this. I was really excited to listen to this novel, I've been to Nepal and it is one of my favourite places so to find a book set there was great and the cover is gorgeous. Unfortunately, I really struggled with one of the narrators, I don't know which narrator was which character but the narrator for Daisy was for me, awful. She was stilted in her narration and even upping the speed to x1.25 didn't help a great deal and made poor Violet's narration too fast but it wasn't feasible to keep changing the speed between characters so 1.25 it was.
I also struggled with a story that had COVID playing such a big part in it, I realise people are going to want to put it in for whatever reason but it's not something I am interested in reading about and will be a topic I avoid from now on.
Violet's story was very interesting and the narration was great. I did enjoy a lot of Daisy's story (except the COVID parts) and I possibly would have enjoyed it more if I had read it. I enjoyed the link between Violet, Nepal and Daisy's family and I enjoyed the ending of the novel.
I wouldn't recommend the audiobook, but if you don't mind COVID being a big part of your story then you might enjoy reading the novel for yourself.
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About the book
An inspiring, uplifting story of love and loss, courage and adventure, from the bestselling author of The Skylark's Secret.
1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn't yet know that it's a journey that will take her to Kathmandu and beyond, deep into captivating landscapes and cultures that are worlds away from everything and everyone she's left behind in Scotland.
2020. Daisy Laverock has dreamed of retracing the footsteps of her great-great-aunt Violet ever since discovering her long-lost journals, whose accounts of plant hunting in the 1930s inspired Daisy's own career. Divorced, and facing an empty nest, Daisy decides to embark on the trip of a lifetime. She arrives in Nepal, ready to start trekking in the shadow of Everest. But fate, and the pandemic, have other plans.
Stranded and alone, Daisy must fall back on the kindness of strangers, taking inspiration from Violet's determination and resilience to keep going in the darkest of times. As she gradually pieces together the fragments of Violet's story and uncovers long-held secrets, can Daisy finally reveal a path forward to her own future?
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