The Savage Garden - Mark Mills

The Savage Garden is a 2007 novel written by Mark Mills. It is set mostly in 1958 Italy particularly in the Tuscany region. I read it last week after finding it in a sale at my local library and though was slightly intrigued was not exactly impressed. ~Plot~ When Adam Strickland, a bright but quite lazy history student at Cambridge University, leaves England for Tuscany he is blissfully unaware of the thrills that await him. He is sent by his Professor to write a unique thesis on a very special garden belonging to the noble Docci family. Created in 1577 by one Federico Docci in memory of his wife who died as a young woman the garden has many secrets that ...  Read the complete review