“The language is wonderful, the characters drawn so well, and the lessons produced so gently and thoughtfully that I have found myself thinking about this book a great deal, weeks after the reading of it.”
Although Elizabeth Goudge’s birthday was yesterday, enjoy this thoughtful review of The Scent of Water.
//published 1963//
Back in 2012 I read my first book by Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse. I was completely blown away by the simple beauty of that story and resolved to read more of Goudge’s works. Somehow, I’ve only just now gotten around to reading another of her books, and this one was just as beautiful, uplifting, and oddly challenging.
While The Little White Horse was a children’s book, The Scent of Water is regular adult fiction. It is not a tale of high excitement, yet I found myself completely engrossed in this story every page of the way. The main character is Mary Lindsay, middle-aged in 1950’s England. She has just inherited a small cottage in a small village and although she has always been a city girl, she has decided to give country life a try. Mary is vaguely discontented with herself, despite the fact that…
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