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The Greenhouse

By: Audur Ava Olafsdottir, Brian FitzGibbon - translator
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
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Young Lobbi was preparing to leave his childhood home, his autistic brother, his octogenarian father, and the familiar landscape of mossy lava fields for an unknown future. Soon before his departure, he received an awful phone call: His mother was in a car accident. She used her dying words to offer calm advice to her son, urging him to continue their shared work in the greenhouse tending to the rare Rosa candida.

Prior to his mother’s death, in that very same greenhouse, Lobbi made love to Anna, a friend of a friend, and just as he readies his departure he learns that in their brief night together they conceived a child. He is still reeling from this chain of events when he arrives at his new job, reinstating the rare eight-petaled rose in the majestic forgotten garden of an ancient European monastery. In focusing his energy cultivating the rarest rose, he also learns to cultivate love, with the help of a film buff monk and his newborn daughter, Flora Sol.

©2012 Audur Ava Olafsdottir (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction

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I will remember the characters and setting for a very long time. Beautifully read too (although I would have liked it read in a northern European accent)

Delightful.

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