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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 23008
Category: Book
Author: Francine Rivers
Publisher: Tyndale House
Studio: Tyndale House
Manufacturer: Tyndale House
Label: Tyndale House
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reissue
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 084233498X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
UPC: 031809034989
EAN: 9780842334983
ASIN: 084233498X
Publication Date: January 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Acclaimed Christian fiction writer Francine Rivers's Leota's Garden uses the image of the garden as a metaphor for the cycles of life that the characters experience. While the story spins around a number of lives, they are all connected through Leota--an 84-year-old grandmother--and her garden, which was once a place of beauty and hope but has in recent years gone to ruin. Beginning in desolation--Leota has been neglected by her self-centred daughter, whose obsession with getting her own daughter into the best college has driven them apart--the novel slowly shows the weaving together of lives in the mysterious ways of grace: a proud and narrow-minded college student ends up learning more from Leota than he'd bargained for, and the granddaughter Leota had never been allowed to know shows up looking for some answers, and even more, looking for Leota herself. A garden blooms, the novel suggests, by getting the hands a little dirty doing the hard work of love. --Doug Thorpe
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Great March 29, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found the beginning of this book hard going,but then I got into it and really enjoyed it.
 Compelling, moving and original April 25, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is one of Francine Rivers' best novels, in my opinion. Now, I'm not an over-emotional person, which some people find odd considering I'm both a woman and a mother, but this story of a mother, a daughter and a grandmother is a compelling read that moved even me. The story's main character is the feisty grandmother, an intelligent old lady with a lot of emotional backpack, hidden behind her complex layers of memories and spunk, which nobody understands - and you can't help but fall in love with this gal and feel that suddenly you understand your own grandparents better. A delightful and meaningful read!
Have you got an annoying grandparent you can't understand? October 26, 2001
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Have you got an annoying grandparent you can't understand? Then this book is for you. Find out how their minds tick, and how to cope with their excentricities. But a warning - don't be surprised if you find out that it was YOU that was the annoying one.
An insightful book, and a wake up call to all of us in this "young and beautiful" world about the beauty of ageing.
Leota's Garden is healing & heartwarming. January 14, 2001
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
I was surprised by how much I loved this book. I was so glad to find a writer who has composed an Angelus to the mending of the human spirit; a canticle of conversations with God. Set in the modern San Francisco Bay area, Leota's children have become hollow successes carrying the burden of their wounded spirits & tainting their own children in the same way. Back when Leota was lively & young there was a war on, the men were away fighting & someone had to bring home the bacon. This Leota did very well & continued when her husband came home too broken be of help. It was in the garden that Leota found her refuge, her chapel where she spoke to her God & it was in there that beauty abounded. Then everyone left except Leota. Into this lonely old woman's life of meditation & hurt comes a callow Berkeley student with his thesis writing itself in his brain & his heart on hold. Leota's granddaughter also turns up with a suitcase full of pain & questions. A redemptive & contemplative read, well written & rewarding.
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