When a choice must be made between love and duty, solace comes in unexpected forms...

Summer, 1929. The Hinton Dysart estate is dying from lack of money, and Kit Dysart, the heir, sees no way out. Then, at his sister's wedding, he meets the vibrant Daisy Chudleigh and her cousin, the heiress Matty Verrall. In love with Daisy but troubled by his family's decline, Kit chooses to marry Matty, though neither Kit nor Daisy is able to forget the other.

When Matty, growing increasingly unhappy in her troubled, empty marriage, decides to re-create the estate's garden, she discovers solace and a gift of which she never dreamt.

A haunting, passionate story played out between three people, Consider the Lily is also a poignant and beautiful novel of England between the wars that propels the reader into its own rich and nostalgic world.

"A gorgeously well written tale: funny, sad, sophisticated" - The Independent

"The literary equivalent of an English country garden" - Sunday Times

"In her way Elizabeth Buchan is a chronicler of time and atmosphere as adept as Jane Austen." - Birmingham Post

"An outstanding, beautifully written and memorable story" - Chicago Tribune