A Mozart Kind of Morning

Jo Stanton has lived all of her adult life in France, scraping together a living as a gardener and musician at one of the most famous chateaux in the Loire valley and caring for her elderly grandmother, but a chance encounter with former concert pianist Henri Arnaud, and his son Thomas, brings an unexpected change to her life. Henri offers her a job restoring his neglected garden in England, where he lives with Thomas, a writer, and their housekeeper Barbara.

Keen to escape the unwanted attentions from one of her colleagues, she agrees. However, the move has more consequences than she anticipated and brings to the fore her troubled past, rekindling supressed nightmares from her childhood. Will she ever be free from the guilt of what she has done? As she falls in love with the garden and the family she has come to know, it becomes increasingly hard to hide her secret. But there is one man who is determined to uncover her past and help her, no matter what.

A story of loss, healing, and, ultimately, true love.

Heather Phillips grew up and lives in Hampshire with her husband, Ian, and two grown-up children. She has always had a story or two going around in her head and decided at last to try writing one down, hence this book was born. It just goes to show you never know what you can do until you try. Heather loves gardening, which is rapidly taking second place in her affections to writing. She has two cats, Bertie and Coco, who have ‘helped’ enormously in the writing of this book.