{"product_id":"9780007277810","title":"The Savage Garden: The Seeds of Sin Were Planted Long Ago…","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe No.1 bestselling novel and Richard \u0026amp; Judy Summer Read: a haunting tale of murder, love and lost innocence for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Jed Rubenfeld\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1958, Adam Strickland, a young Cambridge student, travels to Villa Docci in Tuscany to study a sixteenth-century garden. Designed and laid out by a grieving husband to the memory of his dead wife, it is a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills and classical inscriptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut tragedy has hit the Docci family more recently. The German occupation during World War Two had a devastating impact on them, and the tensions between collaborators and partisans were played out within their own tight circle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam is fascinated by the Doccis and increasingly aware that there are dangerous secrets hidden within the family domain.The garden itself starts to exercise a powerful influence over his imagination, its iconography seeming to point to some deeper, darker truth than was first apparent. And what really lay behind a killing at the villa towards the end of the war?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePast and present, love and intrigue, intertwine in an evocative mystery which vividly captures the experience of an innocent abroad in the uncertain world of post-War Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Savage Garden, a prize-winning novel by Mark Mills, has been hailed as a bestseller. This award-winning fiction has been long-listed and short-listed, making it a top choice for readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Kate Atkinson (Shrines of Gaiety), Jodi Picoult (By Any Other Name), Jennifer Finney Boylan (The Planets), Elly Griffiths (The Last Word), and Victoria Hislop (Those Who Are Loved).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Mills","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889154510997,"sku":"9780007277810","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007277810_bbdb6371-15ed-4894-9953-b66b42f7ebaa.jpg?v=1776888187","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007277810","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}