An Evening With Zoë Richards

Waterstones Liverpool welcomes author and podcaster Zoë Richards as she discusses her debut novel "Garden Of Her Heart"

A story of healing and recovery that will warm your soul…and get you into the garden.

Garden of Her Heart is the story of one loner, two secrets, and three weeks at the Pinewoods Retreat.

When Holly Bush (yes, she still hasn’t forgiven her mother for that combination) is made redundant with gardening leave, after a brutal attack, she decides to visit a retreat not far from home. There she finds friendship and a garden in need of love, she ends up doing literal gardening leave, bringing the community of guests together. Journaling her way through her holiday, Holly works on both her mental and physical scars and discovers an inner strength as her secrets are revealed.

Garden of Her Heart is for readers who enjoy an uplifting story of self-love, friendship, and community, with a hint of romance. It is based at a fictional retreat in pinewoods on the Merseyside coast in Formby, near Liverpool.

Zoë Richards was inspired to write Garden of Her Heart by being a suicide survivor from which she learned the healing that worked best for her, which is not the same for everyone. Dog walks around the Formby pinewoods, not far from her home, gave her the location, in an area known locally as The Lost Resort, a town that never came into existence, close to the sea. In the woods there is a sole Victorian house, standing alone on a cinder track, and this is the inspiration for the location of Pinewoods Retreat.
Zoë Richards will be in conversation with Clare Coombes. Clare is an author, editor and literary agent with over 15 years experience of writing and editing professionally. She is a co-fouder of the Liverpool Literary Agency.

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