The House of Flowers

It is 1941, and England is at its lowest ebb, under-nourished, under-informed, and terrified of imminent invasion. The story is a moving wartime saga, and a thrilling novel of service, strength, and suspicion in wartime Britain. Even at Eden Park, the beautiful country estate where Poppy, Lily, Kate, Marjorie, and her adopted brother Billy are working in espionage for the MI5 unit, confidence is at an all-time low. This is compounded by the discovery of a double agent operating from within the unit. Lily volunteers to be dropped into France, only to find herself linked to Poppy's husband, Scott. Meanwhile, Kate's lover, Eugene, is in Sicily to sabotage the bombers besieging Malta. As agents are gradually wiped out by the informant at Eden Park, Poppy leaves to train as a pilot. Closing the wooden shutters at the House of Flowers—the old folly where she and Scott began their married life—she realizes they were made over a century before to keep out another invader. The central question remains: England survived then—will it survive again?

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