The Garden
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The Garden
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Narrated by:
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Nicolette McKenzie
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Written by:
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Nick Newman
About this listen
A darkly beautiful, eerie, hypnotic novel about two elderly sisters living alone at the edge of the world.
In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. Evelyn and Lily have only ever known each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know. Each day is spent in languid service to their home: tending the bees, planting the crops, and dutifully following the instructions of the almanac written by their mother.
When a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the center of their isolated grounds, their once-solitary lives are irrevocably disrupted. Who is he? Where did he come from? And most importantly, what does he want?
As suspicions gather and allegiances falter, Evelyn and Lily are forced to confront the dark truths about themselves, the garden, and the world as they’ve known it.
©2025 Nick Newman (P)2025 Penguin AudioWhat the critics say
“A fairy tale which gets you by the throat and doesn’t let go. The Garden is both a horror story and a meditation on love at the end of the world. It’s a testament to Newman’s extraordinary gifts that its creeping dread never overwhelms its tenderness. The cool restraint of the writing only compounds its devastating power."—Emerald Fennell, director of Promising Young Woman and Saltburn
“Like [Cormac] McCarthy in The Road, Newman doesn't seem much interested in the causes or details of the apocalypse. . . as with the exploration of vulnerable and often quite affecting characters [as] they try to negotiate strategies of survival between a dark past and a diminished future.”—Locus Magazine
“This climate-change horror story, reminiscent of John Wyndham, combines a bleak message and often brutal action with absolutely exquisite writing.”—Daily Mail