The Best of Intentions : A warm-hearted story of friendship, community and staying true to yourself.

Charming, nostalgic and brimming with optimism - a sparkling story of friendship, community and staying true to yourself for fans of Lissa Evans and AJ Pearce. 'Turbulence and tribulation in paradise . . . A fond and funny novel about the power of patience, love and kindness' Fiona Valpy 1932: When gardener Robert Bardsley arrives at Anderby Hall, an Elizabethan manor house in the Gloucestershire countryside, it is home to ‘Greenfields’, a community of artists and idealists. Robert has been employed to revive Anderby’s famous roses and restore the topiary garden, but he also soon befriends the other residents: from colourful neighbour Trudie, who makes a formidable cocktail and keeps her late-fiancé’s ashes on the mantelpiece, to composer Daniel, recovering from the horrors of the Great War.The only person he can’t win over is Anderby’s schoolteacher, Faye, who finds him . . . perfectly vexing. But just as Robert starts to feel at home, the residents discover that the old orchard has b