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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You can get it on Amazon in paperback or Kindle, Christian Book, Blackwells, or look for a vintage copy on Ebay or Abebooks. Here are a couple of graphics you may share if you like with your reading friends:
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I've already started reading it. It's my third time through, and I'm noticing details I haven't caught before.
Hi… I have already read this book a few years ago, and was just going to “refresh my memory “, w looking at my highlights of the book… but decided to read it again… and I’m so glad I did, as I got so much more out of it! ( more quotes to highlight, etc😊). But, it wasn’t just the quotes that I marked… it was just getting more of the flow of it, that impressed me more this time; wasn’t so concerned w all the characters/interactions, etc., but the overall theme of the “scent of water”, and Goudge’s interpretation of suffering, and what this means in (her), and our every day lives… wow!, so good!😊