The Twilight Garden

Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Part I: Autumn Chapter 1: Winston Chapter 2: Winston Chapter 3: Winston Chapter 4: Winston Chapter 5: Bernice Chapter 6: Winston Chapter 7: Maya Chapter 8: Maya Chapter 9: Winston Chapter 10: Bernice Chapter 11: Maya Chapter 12: Maya Chapter 13: Winston Chapter 14: Maya Chapter 15: Bernice Part II: Winter Chapter 16: Winston Chapter 17: Winston Chapter 18: Bernice Chapter 19: Maya Chapter 20: Maya Chapter 21: Winston Chapter 22: Maya Chapter 23: Bernice Chapter 24: Maya Chapter 25: Winston Part III: Spring Chapter 26: Bernice Chapter 27: Winston Chapter 28: Maya Chapter 29: Maya Chapter 30: Winston Chapter 31: Maya Chapter 32: Winston Part IV: Summer Chapter 33: Bernice Chapter 34: Maya Chapter 35: Winston Chapter 36: Maya Chapter 37: Winston Chapter 38: Maya Chapter 39: Maya Chapter 40: Maya Chapter 41: Bernice Chapter 42: Winston Epilogue Keep Reading … Acknowledgements About the Author Also by Sara Nisha Adams About the Publisher Guide Cover Contents Title page vii viii ix 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 THE TWILIGHT GARDEN Sara Nisha Adams Copyright Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk HarperCollinsPublishers Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 C9W8, Ireland First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2023 Copyright © Sara Nisha Adams 2023 Jacket design by Ellie Game/HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd Jacket illustrations © Jyotirmayee Patra/Illustration X Sara Nisha Adams asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780008391379 Ebook Edition © June 2023 ISBN: 9780008391393 Version: 2023-05-15 Dedication For Will Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Part I: Autumn Chapter 1: Winston Chapter 2: Winston Chapter 3: Winston Chapter 4: Winston Chapter 5: Bernice Chapter 6: Winston Chapter 7: Maya Chapter 8: Maya Chapter 9: Winston Chapter 10: Bernice Chapter 11: Maya Chapter 12: Maya Chapter 13: Winston Chapter 14: Maya Chapter 15: Bernice Part II: Winter Friday, 21 September 2018 You’ll be pleased to know the garden is already tucking itself up for the autumn. The hazel is losing its leaves and looks rather spindly: the shadows of its corkscrew branches sometimes catch the corner of my eye and for a second, I imagine it as something otherworldly. We’ve always adored that tree,