The Rose Villa

A beautiful pink stucco villa on the French Riviera was once a playground for the rich and glamorous. It is now a convalescent home for sick and wounded nurses. Scottish Flora Garvie is recovering from four traumatic years on the ambulance trains and meets Kit Carlyle, a regimental chaplain who no longer believes in his calling. Their dramatic rollercoaster of a story takes them through death, separation, and war until a terrifying game of cat and mouse in Occupied France seals their fate.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2022
Publisher: Head of Zeus

From the French Riviera between the wars to a terrifying endgame in World War 2 Occupied France, a gripping story of doomed but triumphant love from the author of A Wedding in the Olive Garden.

High above the Mediterranean, on the French Riviera, stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a playground for the rich and glamorous, now – in the aftermath of World War 1 – it is a convalescent home for sick and wounded nurses. Here Scottish Flora Garvie is recovering from four traumatic years on the ambulance trains. And here she will meet again charismatic but troubled Kit Carlyle, a regimental chaplain who no longer believes in his calling and certainly doesn't believe himself worthy of Flora's love.

Their dramatic rollercoaster of a story will take them through death, separation, and war, until a terrifying game of cat and mouse in Occupied France seals their fate.

Praise for Leah Fleming:

A born storyteller.

Kate Atkinson.

A moving and compelling story about a lifetime's journey in search of the truth.

Rachel Hore.

Fascinating and unputdownable.

Trisha Ashley.

A fabulous story of people, places, and pearls from a master storyteller.

Lancashire Post

Weight: 282g
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781801108812