Sara Alexi
ASIN: B008LMT78U
Publisher: Oneiro Press
Pages: 290
Lift yourself, fill yourself full of hope and compassion!! The Illegal Gardener is a moving, poignant story about life's rare encounters which knock us off our path, and elevate our very existence. Driven by a need for some control in her life, Juliet sells up on impulse and buys a run down farmhouse in a tiny Greek village, leaving her English life behind. Her boys have grown and she has finally divorced her bullying husband. This is her time now. Whilst making her new home habitable, Juliet discovers she needs a sturdy helping hand with the unruly and neglected garden. Unwilling to share her newfound independence with anyone, but unable to do all the work by herself, she reluctantly enlists casual labour. Aaman has travelled to Greece from Pakistan illegally. Desperate to find a way out of poverty, his challenge is to find work and raise money for the harvester his village urgently ...