The author's affection for the old gardens of New England--some gone forever, some still visitable--is evident throughout this tour, which includes fascinating details, not only about the gardens themselves, but about the men and women who designed and planted them.
Set in the 1950s, this is the story of the Prescotts, thoroughly conventional newlyweds (he's a lawyer, she's a housewife) who move to a small Massachusetts town and join a local club in order to make friends with other married couples. As a portrait of the town's inhabitants emerges, the book reveals that the facade behind which many people took ...
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