June in the Garden

June can name every flower species in the alphabet. She finds it much harder to cultivate an understanding of people.

After her mother’s unexpected death, June has to leave her home. Her social worker suggests a flat with no garden—clearly, that won’t work. In search of a home where she can use her horticultural skills, she sets out to find her father, whom she’s only seen in an old photograph.

When June arrives at her father’s door in Notting Hill, he panics and turns her away. With nowhere to go, June secretly moves into her father’s yellow garden shed. Now she’ll be surrounded by her beloved flowers. But when the family dog and her father’s twelve-year-old son discover June, she must choose between being seen or running away.

This joyful novel is for readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and The Lady in the Van. A heart-warming and humorous portrait of a young woman who looks at the world differently, June in the Garden lets us see the world afresh. Because thinking unconventionally might be the key to appreciating the wonder around us.

Eleanor Wilde is the pen name of an acclaimed YA writer. Eleanor loves books and gardening and spends her weekends in the hills or foraging for wildflowers in the woods. June in the Garden is her debut adult novel and she is working on her second, Clockwork Clementine. Eleanor lives near Edinburgh with her young family.