From the back of the book:
"When Jane Shaw secures an internship on an organic garden in Greece, she soon discovers it will be no easy-going break in the Mediterranean. The five-acre plot is perched on a steep, remote hillside that's blindingly hot in summer, freezing in winter and overseen by an eccentric English lady called Joy."

I'm sending this book to the winner of the Mythological sweepstakes.
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Thank you for sending me this book it sounds very interesting my MTBR is a bit big at the moment so I'll get around to it as soon as I can

An enjoyable read

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Thank you for sending this interesting novel, Abi-Gibby! I can’t wait to dive in!

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Thank you, Spatial, for thinking of me with this book! I loved Greece when I attended the convention there. Speaking of conventions, I met Abi-Gibby and hung out with her in our dorm room at the Oxford Convention. Kind of cool to see her name here {waving arm in direction of UK}

Zeus is a lion. A real no-longer-live-now-taxidermied lion. He lives in the very small outbuilding where the author resides during her sojourn in this garden that is somehow both quite remote and located just off the highway connecting Athens and the airport. Jane calls the building Alcatraz. Somedays it is scorching hot. Other days (months later) it is frigid and the pipes are frozen and she must be dug out of the snowdrift at the front door. Her boss/landlady/eventual dear friend Joy is eccentric at best and incredibly exacting. Together they labor in a 5 acre garden stocked with native plants where strict forms of water conservation and land-use are practiced.

I am not a person who knows much about flowers or plants. I can recognize orchids and lavender and iris, all of which exist in this garden, but most of the others are but semi-familiar names to me. At times, I wished I knew more about them because I knew it would have enhanced my understanding of the book, but I don't think it was a true impediment. I sympathized with Jane as the fish-out-of-water in a challenging environment, I laughed at the antics of Joy's pets, I immediately loved Pavlos the giant teddy bear man, and I grew to care and worry about Joy. I also grew to care about the fate of the garden and to understand the importance of the work they were doing on a shoestring. I know that I could not have done the physical labor involved in maintaining the garden Helikion, but I think I would have enjoyed much of the rest of the adventure. Maybe not Joy's driving, though. And definitely not daily ouzo -- I don't drink and I loathe licorice. It was nice, however, to have this experience vicariously and I would be interested in knowing what else the author has done and learned since then, more on a personal level than a professional one.

Taking this book to March meet-up in Virginia. I will offer it first to SqNutZips (Zippy) because she is doing the 666 challenge and she enjoys nature and gardening so this might work for her. Otherwise, it should find someone else to enjoy it.

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Thank U 6 for bringing this book to the BCinDC March meetup at the Potbelly Sandwich shop on Carlyle street in Alexandria Va. I am putting this book on my TBR pile for the 6 continents, 6 countries/continent BC reading challenge.

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