A nice read, though I didn’t enjoy this as much as many. I suspect this will appeal more to those who like to garden as this is a central theme running through the book - the gardening bits rather bored me I’m afraid.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my review.

With thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the arc, which I have enjoyed reading.
This was a delicious and warm inviting book to read, it was a delight from start to finish. A wonderful book to escape into and enjoy,particularly if you enjoy gardening.
The storyline and the characters were interesting and entertaining and the book was very enjoyable.
Highly recommended

Five years ago, Marnie run to France to escape her controlling and manipulative husband. Now he’s finally signed the divorce paper and she is free to go back home to England. With a new job, a new flat that comes with an intruding cat and possible new friends, Marnie is looking forward to a fresh start. She moves to Jericho’s End to help restore the gardens of Old Grace Hall. Jericho’s End is also the place of origin of her mother, the place her mother had warned to stay away from, so Marnie hopes to find answers about her mother’s mysterious past.

Marnie is a fantastic character. She is very realistic and I really felt for her as she still struggles with the scars from her past. For her Jericho’s End represents a refuge, a place that will give her a new beginning, but also the truth about her mother’s past and the reason behind her sudden departure from the village.

If you love gardening, you are going to adore The Garden of Forgotten Wishes. It’s so full of detailed and rich descriptions of the beautiful gardens at Old Grace Hall that I could practically picture them in my head. And, if you love ice-cream, there are just as many detailed and rich descriptions of mouth-watering homemade ice-cream.

I love Trisha Ashley’s novels. They are uplifting, engaging, and beautifully descriptive and they never disappoint. In The Garden of Forgotten Wishes there is romance, friendship, family drama and it will completely capture you. If this is not enough to encourage you read it, then don’t miss the amazing recipes at the end of the book.

Trisha fans will most likely have read previous books that have familiar place names and characters within this book. This is a beautifully written heartwarming story and may actually be my favourite of Trishas to date. I loved the detailed description of the gardens and you could totally imagine them and picture them coming back to life. As always we meet some wonderful characters, other than one odious ex husband,and look out for Casper the cat. A completely engrossing,enjoyable story. I heartily recommend reading this one.

When Marine was a little girl her mum use to tell her stories of Jericho’s End, where she had grown-up as a child. The stories seemed quite magical to Marnie but her mother warned her never to go there. Marnie’s mum tragically died and she was young. Marine was adopted by a lovely family and grew up happy with a ‘sister’ that became her best friend.
After a disastrous marriage, she needed a complete get away from it all and a new start. When a dream job came up in Jericho’s End including accommodation, it is all too good to miss, after all, no-one will know who she is, will they? This is a beautifully written uplifting story by Trisha Ashley, who always seems to make me want to be the leading character in all her books. Marine is a lady that you just want to find a fairy tale ending.
Jericho’s End is one of those small places that is steeped in family history passed down through the generations. So it isn’t just the gardens that Marine goes digging about in. My imagination ran wide with this book and all the lovely, and at times, strange characters that the author had brought to life.
I swooned over Ned, wanted to eat ice cream continually and cringed at Wayne and his dad! It all made me feel like the place was cut off from the real world, all cocooned in its own haven but it is always too easy to forget whose is on the outside of the village.
A lovely, lovely story again. I always finish reading with a sigh and a smile with these books.
I wish to thank the publisher and NetGalley for an e-copy of this book which I have reviewed honestly.

The garden of forgotten wishes is a treat for nature, garden lovers. The lead character's are living a new chapter of their lives and rebuilding themselves along with a long forgotten and neglected garden.

I absolutely enjoyed the whimsy and the garden in this story.

Will Untangling A Garden Untangle Her Life....?
Marnie needs a new start. When she takes a job as a gardener she hopes that her green fingers will come up trumps. Delightful escapism from Trisha Ashley with a likeable protagonist, a colourful cast of supporting characters and a picturesque backdrop.

This story has a certain style of writing that I always associate with Trisha Ashley. Small charming villages in the countryside, large manor houses and gardening. I always know that I'm going to enjoy her books.
I found this book a lot slow to begin with, but it soon picked up its pace. This is a gentle and easy mostly, there are references of Domestic abuse as Marnie had been married to a controlling and coercive Husband
This book is set five years after she moves back to England, hoping for a fresh start.
The characters in this book are strong and varied. They really help to bring the story to life. There were many gardening references, although I know very little about it, I still found them interesting. Overall this is an enjoyable read.
Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for my ARC.

An unusual plot, premise and setting which piqued my interest. This book reintroduces some characters from Trisha Ashley's previous work, but would work just as well as a standalone. I found this a gentle, relaxing read with elements of mystery and intrigue to keep me guessing.

Reading this book is like curling up in your favourite place, in your favourite blanket or chair, cosy, heart warming, quirky, comforting, and just pure bliss. Trisha Ashley at her very best!!! Now my new favourite book from her! Her writing is brilliant in description and vision. I had to read this slowly as it was so enjoyable and probably made it last twice as long......bliss!! I am still entrenched in the world of gardening Marnie, who wants to come home to a Lancashire village that her mother used to tell her all about. She meets an old friend from horticultural college there, and the gardens are gorgeous and quite inspirational. Can she make a new start and life here?
Cannot recommend this book highly enough, true writing brilliance from Trisha Ashley! LOVED IT!!!!

As a fan of Trisha Ashley's books I found this easy to get into from the start. As it's a standalone novel you don't need to have read previous books, but if you have you will recognise some of the place names and a one or two of the characters that crop up from time to time.
The main characters of the story are completely new but very relateable.
As a victim of coersive control from her ex-husband, Marnie has been living in France but finally heads back to England when she thinks her ex has finally moved on.
Ned has inherited a stately home and as a qualified gardener sets about restoring the grounds to become a tourist attraction.
Soon a different kind of attraction begins but a lack of honesty might derail the blossoming romance.

I am a great fan of Trisha Ashley and always worry that her new book will not be as good as her previous ones, but I need not have worried in this case.

It tells the story of Marnie who had escaped to stay with adopted family in France after an abusive marriage and works in France in various gardens and then decides to go home to England and gets a job in a small village tending two gardens in a place her Mum had told her never to go to but never why. One of the garden owners Ned she was at college with and after initial misgivings about employing her due to false rumours about her they soon get back to their friendship from college and work together to get the gardens ready to open to the public.

Lovely group of characters, family secrets and a hint of romance, make this book a delight.

I always look forward to reading a new book by Trisha Ashley; they are always full of interesting characters and situations. For returning readers, her books very often contain familiar characters too, which I always enjoy. This book is one of many set in a small Lancashire village and does indeed contain a few faces that I recognised from her last novel. I found it a quick but absorbing read.

The story revolves around Marnie, who has been living and working as a gardener in France for a few years, travelling around to avoid her controlling ex-husband. When it seems that he has turned his affections towards another unfortunate woman, Marnie decides to leave France and takes up a position as gardener in the little Lancashire village of Jericho’s End, once her mother’s home. The job comes with a small but cosy flat above an ice cream shop which is attached to a cottage inhabited by two rather eccentric sisters and a very large ginger cat who takes a liking to Marnie. While looking after the cottage garden, Marnie’s duties also involve helping to restore the large garden of the manor house next door. She is surprised to find that the large house and grounds belong to an old college friend, Ned, now a successful garden designer. After a somewhat rocky start, Marnie and Ned find common ground in their interest in the plants and the secrets that the overgrown garden gives up as they work. There are other surprises in store for Marnie as she settles into the job and life in the village, not all of them pleasant.

As I expected, I thoroughly enjoyed this book; another hit for Trisha Ashley. The setting in this tranquil village with the river running through and the picturesque falls with the promise of fairies and angels left me feeling peaceful each time I read. However, the pace of the story quickened towards the end, when there was a great deal of drama all within a few pages. I liked Marnie as a character and enjoyed her ability to stand up to the somewhat moody Ned. I found him a bit annoying to start with, but he grew on me as the story progressed. I was intrigued by the cat in the story; his colour and great size were unusual. He was quite a formidable character with definite ideas of his place in the world. As well as the drama, romance and hint of magic, the book has quite a bit of humour in its pages, the old ladies living in the cottage providing a large proportion. They enjoy experimenting with new ice cream flavours, and there is an interesting selection of recipes at the end of the book for those readers possessing an ice cream maker. I can definitely recommend this book to other readers; if not familiar with Trisha Ashley’s work, this would make a good place to start.

Gardener Marnie wants to put down roots having escaped to France from a controlling marriage, she decides she needs a fresh start and gets a job in a rural west Lancashire village which her dying mother made her promise to stay away from.

The job comes with a flat above a café run by two sisters, and she tends their garden, and also assists next door neighbour Ned Mars with his.

Marnie remembers Ned from her college days but he’s far from the untroubled man she once knew. A recent relationship has left him with a heart as bruised as her own.

This is a lovely cosy read especially if you love gardening, and even if you don’t, it’s a nice, heart-warming story.

I particularly loved the fact that I recognised characters from a previous book “The Christmas Invitation”, and I thought the tie in was a lovely touch, although saying that, this is a stand alone story, and you won’t feel like you’ve missed anything if you haven’t read the previous book, it’s just like an Easter Egg on a DVD!

The characters were believable, and well written, I particularly loved Marnie, and wanted to put a friendly arm around her shoulder and protect her, although I don’t think she needed it, as her confidence grew alongside the forgotten roses in the garden!

There is an involved back story including many feuds and fights from previous generations which I found quite difficult to get my head round, but bear with it, as it’s all explained at the end!

This is a slow burner of a story, which was quite nice as it didn’t feel like everything was thrown into the pot all at once, and saying that the story did gather speed at the end.

What an amazing book. This is my first book by Trisha Ashley, although I do have a number of her previous books in my TBR pile I will digging out.

I loved the interlacing plot, how tales, rumours and gossip got twisted and edited over the years until the truth is finally discovered. More and more of the hidden past was revealed as r garden was pruned and restored,
I loved the easy friendship of Ned and Marnie, and how once they realised their feelings for each other it was full steam ahead, there wasn’t anything they couldn’t over come. I have a feeling Elf and Myfee knew a bit more from the start than they let on and just wanted to see the organic play of events.
Special mention has to go to Caspar the giant orange cat. I loved him, I loved his c-attitude and how Marnie was convinced he was talking to her. I personally felt that maybe he was watching over her, possibly embodying the spirit of her mother.
A beautiful story that I never wanted to end.

Another heart-warming read by Trisha Ashley. Wonderful characters, animals and a garden. It is as if we have stepped off the page into the garden itself

A gentle read for a lazy summer day. Marnie takes up a post as gardener in a place her long deceased mother told her never to visit. The story unfolds when she meets Ned who is restoring the gardens and of course a romance dies eventually and predictably ensue. There is a lot of background information tucked into the telling including ice cream making and garden renovation with for me perhaps a little too much of the latter. There is too a complicated side to family feuds and disputes. It just seemed to burn a bit too slowly for me particularly through the middle section then go at speed towards the end.. The characters were well sketched out and believable but it was just missing something for me

A lovely romantic read set in a beautifully described and detailed location, you can almost smell the flowers.
I really enjoy the fact that it intertwined with earlier books, there's a real sense of community. Fabulous characters, my favourite being Casper.
Perfect summer read.

A marvellous slice of horticultural escapism with trowel-loads of charm and everything we've come to expect from a Tricia Ashley novel. Cue the arrival of downtrodden heroine in waiting, Marnie, who fled to France to escape an abusive marriage and has subsequently developed a career restoring the gardens of French chateaus and manor houses. Upon her return to England, she settles in her mother's childhood environ of Jericho's End, where she is befriended by a cast of characters including the eccentric sisters, Elf and Myfy, curmudgeonly cat, Casper, and brooding former college friend, Ned. As Marnie and Ned work together to restore the garden to its former glory, family secrets unfurl, romance begins to slowly blossom and magic is literally in the air courtesy of the local fairy population. Thank you very much for the advance review copy, which I recommend as a wonderful, light thoroughly enjoyable summer read.

The Garden if Forgotten Wishes is an easy comforting read with a cast of characters with great individuality, humour and attention to a subject that needs talking about.
The main character Marnie has been through a lot and escaped a controlling ex husband. Ned a chap Marnie knew at horticultural college has also had his share of difficulties. They come together when Marnie is employed to help Ned restore the garden of an old Manor House.
An enjoyable story although I did find myself skimming a few pages but this is probably because I’m no gardener or cook!
My thanks to net galley and publisher for the opportunity to review this book honestly