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Still Garden: Grief is not for the faint of heart.
Paperback
Series: Still Garden, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 12 2025
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When grief becomes a garden, healing takes root in unexpected ways.
David Mills never expected to inherit his grandfather's farmhouse-or to lose both his mother and grandfather within weeks of each other. Alone in rooms thick with memory, he's left with more questions than answers and a garden he has no idea how to tend.
Then, from a windowsill in the old house, he hears a voice.
It belongs to Samantha-his mother's cherished philodendron. Wry, wise, and unflinchingly honest, this unexpected companion begins to echo the prayers and insights his mother once whispered. Through Samantha's unlikely guidance, David is drawn into a community he didn't know he needed:
Mara, the steady caregiver next door. Her son Eli, whose clear eyes see what grown-ups miss. Eileen, a nursing student with a gift for gentleness. And Maya, a blue-haired artist who wears her grief in the open.
Together, they show David that healing doesn't come from erasing sorrow-but from learning to tend what remains.
Like a garden, life requires patience, courage, and trust in what cannot always be seen.
Still Garden is a contemplative Christian novel of loss, community, and quiet renewal. With lyrical prose and tender honesty, it invites readers to discover that even in the most barren seasons, love can take root and flourish.
For readers who loved: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, and the novels of Wendell Berry
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