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The Mermaid Garden
A Novel  
By Santa Montefiore
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Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the magnificent Tuscan villa that overlooks the sea just outside her small village. She likes to spy from the crumbling wall into the gardens and imagine that one day she’ll escape her meager existence and live there surrounded by its splendor. Then, one day, Dante, the son of the villa’s powerful industrialist owner, invites her inside and shows her the enchanting Mermaid Garden. . . .

Decades later and hundreds of miles away, a beautiful old country hotel on England’s Devon coast has fallen on hard times. Its owner, Marina, hires an artist to stay for the summer and teach the guests how to paint. Charismatic and wise, he soon begins to pacify the discord in her family and transform the fortunes of the hotel. However, he is not who he seems, and whatever his intentions are, he is certain to change Marina’s life forever.
“Santa Montefiore is a superb storyteller….Her plots are sensual, sensitive and complex: her characters are unforgettable life forces: her love stories are desperate yet uplifting . One laughs as much as one cries.”
-- Plum Sykes, author of The Debutante Divorcee
“Epic in scope and emotion, but also brilliantly observant and truthful…surprising, moving, and skillful.”
-- Elizabeth Buchan, author of Separate Beds
“Montefiore is a grand storyteller. Her near-lyrical descriptive prose is appealing on its own; the plot is involving on multiple levels, crossing several genres; and her characters step well beyond formula. All in all, a fine way for American readers to get to know the Montefiore name, which will very soon be cropping up in the same sentences as the name Maeve Binchy.”
-- Booklist, starred review”
"The Mermaid Garden has it all: secrets, mystery, passionate love affairs fueled by drama and determined by fate, and the grace notes of fairytales- evil stepmothers, cranky stepdaughters, and redemption in the wake of understanding in the hands of the great painter Rafa Santoro. Santa Montefiore is a wonder, you will not be able to put this novel down. Unforgettable!"
-- Adriana Trigiani, author of Brava, Valentine
“Like her countrywomen Barbara Taylor Bradford and Penny Vincenzi, Montefiore excels at juxtaposing the opulent with the ordinary in delicately woven tales that seamlessly traverse borders and span decades.”
-- Booklist
“An absorbing plot.”
-- Kirkus Reviews
“Two stories, two generations, and two beautiful European locales are neatly gift-wrapped into one sumptuous tale of love, loss, and redemption. . . . Luxurious and romantic depictions of scenic Tuscany and the beautiful English coast.”
-- Publishers Weekly
“Montefiore has written another lovely fairy tale for grown-ups. . . . Fans of women’s fiction will be moved by the characters and eager to find out what happens to them. Lush descriptions of gardens in Tuscany and Devon add to the novel’s charm.”
-- Library Journal
"Absorbing."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"Two stories, two generations, and two beautiful European locales are neatly gift-wrapped into one sumptuous tale of love, loss, and redemption. . . . Luxurious and romantic depictions of scenic Tuscany and the beautiful English coast."
 
-- Publishers Weekly
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