Consider the Lily: Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Novel of the Year Award (English Edition)

When a choice must be made between love and duty solace comes in unexpected forms... Summer 1929. The Hinton Dysart estate is dying from lack of money and Kit Dysart the heir sees no way out. Then at his sister's wedding he meets the vibrant Daisy Chudleigh and her cousin the heiress Matty Verrall. In love with Daisy but troubled by his family's decline Kit chooses to marry Matty though neither Kit nor Daisy is able to forget the other. When Matty growing increasingly unhappy in her troubled empty marriage decides to re-create the estate's garden she discovers solace and a gift o f which she never dreamt. A haunting passionate story played out between three people Consider the Lily is also a poignant and beautiful novel of England between the wars that propels the reader into its own rich and nostalgic world.