Getting ready for May!
The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge
“The spring will come with celandines and white violets in the lanes, and then the late spring with bluebells and campion and the wistaria coming out. And I shall learn the spring by heart, and then the summer, and I'll learn the bells and birdsong by heart, and the way the moonlight moves on the wall and the sun lies on the floor. I'll grow older and lose my beauty but the spring will not grow old nor the moon nor the snow.”
🌿 Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water
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I hope you are planning on joining us for a perfect Goudge novel for springtime—The Scent of Water. Goudge wrote this novel as inspired by the Chiltern Hills in Oxfordshire near the location of her Rose Cottage. It is a beautiful story of spiritual renewal, dealing with grief, childhood and redemption. Hope you can join us!
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Ah, my favorite Goudge! Wouldn't miss it. My mom shared the "little things" passage with me when I was a little girl and I grew up to read the whole book as a young adult... and to read it again in middle age and now I get to read it again as an old woman... really looking forward to this!! So grateful.
I have literally just finished reading this novel with Sarah Clarkson’s Book Girl Fellowship on Patreon. She introduced me to Elizabeth Goudge. We have not discussed it yet with her so it’s synchronised with this lovely group. (Edited to add I have already listened to Sarah's talk and appreciated her insights as well as those of the group- my brain is mush today, don't mind me!)