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“When you married, you did nothing but compromise. And you lost your ability to make a home exactly as you wanted down to the last detail.��

Maud is in a marriage with a man she no longer loves, so she jumps at the chance to spend the summer away restoring the gardens of a historic estate in the Hudson Valley. She comes to life as she unearths the mysteries of the garden beds with the help of a handsome archaeologist and colleague. But, when her children join her, the budding relationship she has built and the independence she felt becomes stunted by an event that changes everything.

I found myself relating to this book so deeply as a mother and wife. The parallels between gardening and a mother’s sense of worth were so beautifully written. While Maud tends to the gardens and nurtures her children, her own sense of self and worth become overgrown with weeds. In the end, though, there is hope as she begins to build a life on her own terms.

Hedge was so much more than I was expecting. It is deeply moving, full of rich, elegant language, and hard to put down. This one will stay with me for quite some time.

Thank you to NetGalley, Zibby Books and Jane Delury for an advance copy of this book.