The Scent Of Water
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: minor nicks/tears on endpapers. Price clipped dj.
In the quiet English countryside, a woman arrives to inhabit a centuries-old cottage and unwittingly steps into a world shaped by the lives of those who came before her — chief among them a reclusive woman whose journals reveal a mind both tortured and transcendent. The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge chronicles the journey of middle-aged Mary Lindsay as she leaves her London life behind, seeking solace and meaning in rural Buckinghamshire, only to discover that the cottage and its surroundings hold secrets, sorrows, and a profound spiritual inheritance she cannot ignore. Goudge writes with a luminous, unhurried grace that invites the reader to slow down and attend to the sacred embedded in the ordinary — a falling of light through an old window, the persistence of a garden, the quiet courage of those who endure suffering with dignity. Steeped in themes of faith, mental illness, redemption, and the continuity of human experience across generations, this novel stands as one of her most spiritually resonant works. Rich in psychological depth and suffused with a gentle but uncompromising Christian sensibility, it leaves the reader asking whether healing is ever truly found — or simply inherited.
Author: Elizabeth Goudge
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Hodder and Stoughton
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: minor nicks/tears on endpapers. Price clipped dj.
In the quiet English countryside, a woman arrives to inhabit a centuries-old cottage and unwittingly steps into a world shaped by the lives of those who came before her — chief among them a reclusive woman whose journals reveal a mind both tortured and transcendent. The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge chronicles the journey of middle-aged Mary Lindsay as she leaves her London life behind, seeking solace and meaning in rural Buckinghamshire, only to discover that the cottage and its surroundings hold secrets, sorrows, and a profound spiritual inheritance she cannot ignore. Goudge writes with a luminous, unhurried grace that invites the reader to slow down and attend to the sacred embedded in the ordinary — a falling of light through an old window, the persistence of a garden, the quiet courage of those who endure suffering with dignity. Steeped in themes of faith, mental illness, redemption, and the continuity of human experience across generations, this novel stands as one of her most spiritually resonant works. Rich in psychological depth and suffused with a gentle but uncompromising Christian sensibility, it leaves the reader asking whether healing is ever truly found — or simply inherited.