All the Pretty Places: A Novel of the Gilded Age [Paperback]

'All The Pretty Places is a timeless and powerful novel of a daring woman who must decide if she will risk everything to follow her passion and find her voice. Callaway's wise and insightful prose gives life to Sadie Fremd, a woman who understands the value of beauty and the vulnerability of love. For anyone who has ever had to find their voice in a crowd shouting to be the same as everyone else, Sadie Fremd will be your hero. With lush gardens so generously described that one feels as if they can pick the flowers, All the Pretty Places is immersive, engaging, and full of wonder.''All the Pretty Places is a verdant, gorgeous novel, filled with lush scenery, fascinating characters, and engaging drama. Callaway skillfully transports her readers into the Gilded Age gardens of the late-twentieth century, where the yearnings of the heart come into conflict with the economic realities of the time. I was instantly swept away and stayed enraptured by the story to its very last page.''If you yearn for a more gracious era, when natural beauty was a human birthright, you'll adore Joy Callaway's ALL THE PRETTY PLACES. Landscape designer Sadie Fremd is a forward-thinking heroine who wants three things--to inherit her father's plant nursery, to create a public park in her hometown of Rye, New York, and to marry Sam Jenkins, a family employee who shares her vision of bringing nature to everyone, regardless of income or status. Sadie's struggle to be taken seriously in an age when women are considered as ornamental as roses and her desire to freely pursue both her talents and her heart create a warm and engaging novel. And the fact that the story is based on Callaway's real-life ancestors only makes ALL THE PRETTY PLACES an even more satisfying read!''Inspired by her own family history, Joy Callaway's All the Pretty Places is a gorgeously written novel about a Gilded Age nursery, the beauty of nature, the ugliness of the world, and how one woman blossoms to discover the wonder in tl3¨