In vivid, nuanced prose, Melanie Wallace - "a writer with a tender regard for the marginal, the missing and the lost"- explores the time-tested bonds of a small community, the healing power of friendship and love, and whether the wrongs of the past can ever be made right.4/5(56). "In this exceptional novel, Melanie Wallace conveys the depths and complexities of life in a seemingly uneventful New England village. The Girl in the Garden strikingly affirms Eudora Welty's belief 'that one place understood helps us understand all other places better.'"—Ron Rash, author of . The Girl in the Garden. by. Melanie Wallace. · Rating details · ratings · reviews. An unforgettable novel about a young woman and her infant son, abandoned at a seaside motel in New England, and the secrets of the townspeople who provide them with shelter. When June arrives on the coast of New England, baby in arms, an untrustworthy man by her side, Mabel—who rents them a /5.
Melanie Wallace was born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, and now lives with her husband in Myloi, an agrarian village below the Ohi mountain range in Greece, and in Paris. Wallace's novel "The Housekeeper" was longlisted for the Orange Prize. MELANIE WALLACE is the author of The Housekeeper, which was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and Blue Horse Dreaming, which was long-listed (in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of The Girl in the Garden. This is my honest opinion of the book. "In this exceptional novel, Melanie Wallace conveys the depths and complexities of life in a seemingly uneventful New England village. The Girl in the Garden strikingly affirms Eudora Welty's belief 'that one place understood helps us understand all other places better.'"—Ron Rash.
"In this exceptional novel, Melanie Wallace conveys the depths and complexities of life in a seemingly uneventful New England village. The Girl in the Garden strikingly affirms Eudora Welty's belief 'that one place understood helps us understand all other places better.'"—Ron Rash, author of Serena and Above the Waterfall. In vivid, nuanced prose, Melanie Wallace - "a writer with a tender regard for the marginal, the missing and the lost"- explores the time-tested bonds of a small community, the healing power of friendship and love, and whether the wrongs of the past can ever be made right. Melanie Wallace. Melanie Wallace was born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, and now lives with her husband in Myloi, an agrarian village below the Ohi mountain range in Greece, and in Paris. Wallace's novel "The Housekeeper" was longlisted for the Orange Prize.
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