Book Three of The Compleat Gardener series
by Edeana Malcolm
Letters from the Gardener takes place during the French Revolution when Belfast was awash with republican ideals. Into this cauldron come John Dean, a Scottish gardener, and his wife Susan Kirk, a former English lady. John is a gardener for Henry Joy, the editor of the Belfast News-Letter. When his wife meets Joy's nephew and namesake, the handsome revolutionary, Henry Joy McCracken, and comes under the influence of his feminist sister Mary Ann, the Dean's marriage is in for a rocky patch. The growing unrest in Ireland spurs John to insist on emigration to the New World, but not before he confronts his wife's "lover" and learns the truth.
I write historical fiction, often, but not always, based on family history.
Edeana Malcolm has written nine historical novels. Her latest, Maid of Gold, published in 2024, is set in the 1850s and tells the story of a couple from Quebec City who travel to the Australian Gold Rush in Melbourne and then return home again circumnavigating the world by sailing ship. It is based on one of the stories of her ancestors.
