The Unfinished Garden Audiobook (Free)

A love story about grief, OCD, and dirt

Tilly Silverberg is rebuilding her life with her young son, Isaac, a single potted-up plant at a time. Since her husband’s loss of life, gardening is becoming her livelihood and her salvation. Concealing out in the North Carolina forest, she wants only to become left only with Isaac and her greenhouse.

New to the area, successful software designer James Nealy requires a garden. On a solitary mission to reclaim his existence from irrational obsessions and relentless compulsions, about The Unfinished Garden he includes a plan: to conquer his very best dread. Dirt. One glimpse-or two-of Tilly’s backyard, and he knows she holds the key. However when he asks her to consider him on as a customer, she refuses.

After a family group emergency pulls Tilly and Isaac back again to her native Britain, she’s quietly happy, because absolutely nothing has changed in her childhood village. Or provides it? Her first love is unexpectedly solitary, her mother is scheming, and her closest friend is keeping secrets. After that James appears on her doorstep.

Tenuous at first, but gradually taking root, James and Tilly forge an unlikely bond. Because they work together to save a backyard choked by neglect, they unearth each other’s secrets, each other’s doubts, each other’s hopes-and maybe, a shared second chance.