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The midsummer garden

by Kirsty Manning

This dual-timeline novel connects a fifteenth-century French herbalist chef dreaming of independence with a modern Tasmanian marine biologist struggling to balance her career and relationship, their lives linked across centuries by a set of antique copper pots.

Accession 36803 ISBN 1760294748 Publisher Allen & Unwin
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