The Heirloom Garden (Paperback)
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- 5 out of 5 stars review2/22/2022Whenever I finish a Viola Shipman…Whenever I finish a Viola Shipman book, I feel like I am saying goodbye to good friends. The books are full of beauty, family, love, hope, kindness, friendship, and more. The Heirloom Garden is a beautiful story of loss followed by hope. Viola Shipman, a pseudonym for Wade Rouse, writes his books in tribute to his grandmother. She must have been a very special woman because his books are testaments of love. Sometimes the books are not subtle in their message, often almost knocking you over the head with their message, but that is what we need to hear the message on many occasions. I loved how this novel tells the story through flowers and their life cycle, and how it also looks at veterans and war and the toll it takes on families and a c...rmarcin
- 5 out of 5 stars review2/15/2020This is another fantastic book by Viola Shipman. I started it as soon as it showed up in my mailbox, even though I had a stack of books that should have been read first but this is one of my 'go to' authors and I had to read it right away. I am a huge fan of books about Michigan and books that take place on Lake Michigan always tug at my heart because of all the summers that I spent at the Lake growing up. This author describes the area around Lake Michigan so well and so beautifully that it is an integral part of the story - as important as the characters. I loved this book and think it will be one of the "must read" books of Spring, 2020. The story is told in dual time lines and in different eras. 1944 - Iris lost her husband in WWII and ...susan0316
- 5 out of 5 stars review3/11/2020The Heirloom Garden by Viola Shipman Book starts with authors praise from other works. Starts out with Iris and she has a victory garden as to so many during the war. It was the only way to get food, rest had to go to the soldier fighting the war. There is so much you will walk away with after reading this book. Iris raised the victory garden for the town and needs to get over her anxiety and has no resting place for her spouse, Abby needs encouragement to be strong to do the things she needs to do, Cory needs to get over his anxiety after returning from the war. Parts that got to me where the monthly visits to the garden as I have so many of the same flowers-what a beautiful year of flowers. 2000's Abby married to Cory, back from the war l...
- 4 out of 5 stars review5/4/2020We meet two women generations apart who have lost their husbands. One has a husband who never came home from WWII, and one has a husband who came home but is lost to PTSD. Iris loves her flowers and her family, but they are now gone including her daughter. Abby moves into the house next to Iris, has her husband and her daughter, and a job as an engineer since her husband can no longer work or function. We follow the lives of both characters present day and past. Gardeners will absolutely LOVE this book. The flower and gardening information is outstanding and described in such detail you can visualize it. I also enjoyed how flowers were compared to feelings and life events. Viola Shipman has given us another heartwarming book filled with pos...SilversReviews
- 4 out of 5 stars review4/23/2020The Heirloom Garden by Viola Shipman has Iris Maynard living alone in her home alone after the loss of her husband and daughter for the last six decades. She spends her time taking care of her beautiful heirloom garden. Iris then rents the cottage next door to a woman with a husband recently returned from Iraq and an inquisitive little girl. The Peterson's remind Iris of how her family used to be before her husband died during World War II and her little girl from illness. Abby and Iris become friends. They find they have much in common especially a love of flowers. Can they help each other heal and discover that not one minute of a life should be wasted? The Heirloom Garden is well-written with relatable characters and incidents. Iris Mayn...