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Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society

Sophie Green

Start date: May 1, 2024

Finish date: May 31, 2024

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May 22, 2024 Brenda rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2023-release, aussie-authors, contemporary-fiction, own-read, 3000-2024

Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast in 1987 had a laid back, friendly lifestyle and when Cynthia arrived from Los Angeles, back to the home she'd left fourteen years prior, she moved in with her father until she worked out if she would stay. Her daughter, Odette, was nineteen and pregnant, and Cynthia didn't want her to make the same mistakes she did. Kathy had arrived from Melbourne, another person not sure if she'd stay in Noosa. Kathy had left her husband for another, was estranged from her ...more

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Aug 12, 2023 Helen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: borrowed-from-library

Another beautiful story from the pen of Sophie Green, it is always lovely to spend time with her wonderful characters, I love getting to know them, this book takes us to The Sunshine Coast in Queensland in Noosa Heads, it is 1987 and we meet Cynthia, Lorraine, Elizabeth and Kathy as they join together to help bring gardens back to life and perhaps themselves as well, along with Barb and Shirl this is a fabulous story.

Cynthia has just arrived back to her home town after spending many unhappy year Another beautiful story from the pen of Sophie Green, it is always lovely to spend time with her wonderful characters, I love getting to know them, this book takes us to The Sunshine Coast in Queensland in Noosa Heads, it is 1987 and we meet Cynthia, Lorraine, Elizabeth and Kathy as they join together to help bring gardens back to life and perhaps themselves as well, along with Barb and Shirl this is a fabulous story.

Cynthia has just arrived back to her home town after spending many unhappy years in Los Angeles, her nineteen year old daughter Odette is pregnant and it seems that time is repeating itself and Cynthia wants to be there for her, as her mother was not for her. When Cynthia meets up with an old friend she is encouraged to join the local Sunshine Gardening Society.

Lorraine, is Cynthia鈥檚 best friend and after years apart they are as close as ever, Lorraine is busy helping her husband with the handyman business keeping up with her two sons and having her mother in law living with her and after a talk, Cynthia encourages Lorraine to join the gardening society as well.

Elizabeth is a young widow with a young son Charlie, she has a big garden and after the death of her husband it is badly needing some TLC, the gardening society steps up to offer help and friendships are soon forming.

Kathy has run from her home town of Melbourne and her family to start fresh in Noosa Heads, her heart is breaking but she needs to be strong when she meets the gardening ladies on a walk one day she is encouraged to join as well and soon her life is changing with friendship.

With Shirl and Barb teaching these four woman about plants and gardening, native verses other plants, these woman become very close and they support each other where needed, in their personal lives, as in gardening many aspects of life can be similar and one quote from the book that I loved is 鈥渞emove the weeds so as the plants can grow鈥� together these woman encourage each other to find trust and happiness to start new lives where needed and to move forward.

Sophie Green has again dug deep into the emotions of these woman and bought them to life on the pages, I found them all so easy to like and I do highly recommend this one, lots of emotions rolling from the pages of this book, I loved it.
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Aug 07, 2023 Shelleyrae at Book'd Out rated it really liked it

Shelves: provided-by-publisher, aussie-author, arc-are

Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society is a gentle and charming character driven novel about friendship and fresh starts from bestselling Australian author, Sophie Green.

Having finally extricated herself from her abusive second marriage in LA, Cynthia has returned to her hometown of Noosa Heads in the hope of restoring her relationship with her pregnant daughter, Odette. In attempting to reconcile with her past, Cynthia also reconnects with her former best friend, harried wife and mother ...more

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Aug 19, 2023 Catsalive rated it really liked it

Shelves: aww, 2023

An easy-reading, feel-good story about a year in four women's lives, 1987-8. Cynthia, Lorraine, Kathy & Elizabeth all come together through the Sunshine Garden Society, a group of volunteers on the Sunshine Coast who help gardens in need, & the people who grow them. The four women undergo momentous events in their lives, together giving support to their friends, & accepting it when in need. There are some excellent secondary characters, too. ...more

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Sep 05, 2023 Rina rated it really liked it

Noosa Heads, 1987: Cynthia, Lorraine, Elizabeth and Kathy came from different places, backgrounds, and challenges. Cynthia returned from LA after a divorce to reconnect with her pregnant 19-year-old daughter, Lorraine was stuck in her day-to-day life and her husband鈥檚 business, Elizabeth was grieving her husband鈥檚 death and Kathy was mending her broken heart. The four women met via the Sunshine Gardening Society, where tending to gardens also meant tending to their lives.

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