The Scent of Water: Week 4

Heroines, Books, and Musical references

My vintage copy of The Scent of Water in front of our Cottage Garden at Havenwood.

“What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings…”

🌿 Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water, ch 13

Goudge’s Heroines

It’s the end of May and the official end of our read-along for The Scent of Water, but I’m never really done with this book. Every time I open it, I’m transported back to Appleshaw and to the guidance of Cousin Mary, the real heroine of the story.