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Inspired by a visit tot he Lost Gardens of Heligan, The Orchid House is set within a great Cornish garden.
When her partner drowns on the beach in Sri Lanka, Roma returns to Cornwall and retreats into the arms of orchid- lover and Head Gardener on the Trescombe Estate, Will Trant. Here Roma begins work on illustrations for the 1887 Journal of another Head Gardener, the Victorian, Henry Dodson. Roma grows to love the gardens and to admire Henry and his work. But the world of Trescombe is peopled with the ghosts of the Russell family and filled with echoes of her own tragedy. A tragedy that Roma is finally, only able to confront when she embarks on a dangerous and erotic affair which culminates in betrayal and forces her to flee her self- imposed exile.
When her partner drowns on the beach in Sri Lanka, Roma returns to Cornwall and retreats into the arms of orchid- lover and Head Gardener on the Trescombe Estate, Will Trant. Here Roma begins work on illustrations for the 1887 Journal of another Head Gardener, the Victorian, Henry Dodson. Roma grows to love the gardens and to admire Henry and his work. But the world of Trescombe is peopled with the ghosts of the Russell family and filled with echoes of her own tragedy. A tragedy that Roma is finally, only able to confront when she embarks on a dangerous and erotic affair which culminates in betrayal and forces her to flee her self- imposed exile.
