1907: Venetia Smith has carved out a niche for herself as a garden designer to industrialists, solicitors, and bankers. When she is hired to design the gardens of the Highbury House estate, the gardens--and the people she meets--promise to change her life forever. 1944: When Highbury House is requisitioned and transformed into a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers, three very different women are drawn together by a secret that will last for decades. Present day: Emma Lovell has just been given the opportunity to restore the gardens of the famed Highbury House. But as Emma dives into the gardens' past, she uncovers the secrets that have long lain hidden"--Page 4 of cover.