The Kew Gardens Girls at War

A story of love, courage and a love of plants and gardening. Strong women standing up for what they believe in and supporting each other when tragedy hits. Healing their hearts in working at Kew Gardens and helping others with the healing plants they gather and grow. Finding new beginnings and surviving loss during a horrible war that changes everyone and everything it touches. Daisy, the young wife of an RAF serviceman worried about his fate overseas joins the crew of the Kew Gardens to keep her mind off her worries and makes a new friend. Beth, a nurse joins to work in Kew Gardens because she wants to learn more about medicinal plants as she has aspirations of someday becoming a doctor. Soon Daisy and Beth are good friends. Louisa once worked for Kew Gardens in the first World War and she is not yet ready to give up her green thumb and her gardening knowledge. With bombs bursting over London every night, the hospital full and Anderson shelters popping up all over the place the ladies find solace in working in the gardens. They work together and confide in each other their personal challenges and their concerns with the war and with other issues. When a tragedy befalls one of their own they are all there to comfort each other. There are many underlying themes throughout the book. Prejudice against women in the workplace, discrimination, a father's misguided love, romance, loss and despair. There is also courage, strength, forgiveness and compassion. I really enjoyed reading the first book and now this second book about the Kew Gardens. Each one is different and each one equally great. I loved both book. I would defiantly recommend this book. Thanks to Posy Lovell for writing a great story, to Penguin Group Putnam for publishing it and to NetGalley for making it available to me.