{"id":470,"date":"2022-06-08T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiebooknook.co.uk\/home\/?p=470"},"modified":"2022-06-03T19:32:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T19:32:01","slug":"elucias-garden-arana-ciel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiebooknook.co.uk\/home\/elucias-garden-arana-ciel","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9lucia&#8217;s Garden &#8211; Arana Ciel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff shariff-align-flex-start shariff-widget-align-flex-start\" data-services=\"pinterest%7Cfacebook%7Creddit\" data-url=\"https%3A%2F%2Findiebooknook.co.uk%2Fhome%2Felucias-garden-arana-ciel\" data-timestamp=\"1654284721\" data-hidezero=\"1\" data-backendurl=\"https:\/\/indiebooknook.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/shariff\/v1\/share_counts?\"><ul class=\"shariff-buttons theme-round orientation-horizontal buttonsize-small\"><li class=\"shariff-button twitter shariff-nocustomcolor\" style=\"background-color:#32bbf5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Findiebooknook.co.uk%2Fhome%2Felucias-garden-arana-ciel&text=%C3%89lucia%E2%80%99s%20Garden%20%E2%80%93%20Arana%20Ciel\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" aria-label=\"Share on Twitter\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"shariff-link\" style=\"; 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She&#8217;s bored of her confinement in her childhood home, of the same routine &#8211; day in, day out. She has only two friends, a porcelain doll named Auden and a giant, ancient oak tree that she has bestowed the name of Amani &#8211; meaning &#8216;peace&#8217; in Swahili. Her father, though loves her dearly, is distant, caught up in his own grief for \u00c9lucia&#8217;s mother, Lumia, who passed away from a fever. She can never leave her home nor the perfectly manicured garden, which is perpetually sunny and is perpetually surrounded by an impenetrable mist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we follow \u00c9lucia&#8217;s strange, lonely existence, we begin to learn that all is not quite as it seems. While at first, she seems to be a precocious, slightly spoilt young girl, we quickly learn that she&#8217;s not. She&#8217;s battling her own grief and guilt over her mother&#8217;s death &#8211; believing that she is in part to blame for the tragedy. She&#8217;d fallen from one of Amani&#8217;s branches, causing Lumia to rush out to tend to her, despite the fever which was wreaking havoc on her body. Her father&#8217;s distance isn&#8217;t something he&#8217;s engendered; it is not because he blames his daughter for his wife&#8217;s passing. He adores \u00c9lucia, doting on her, loving her with his entire heart and soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a mystery in this book, which is written beautifully and with a charming, slightly haunting air. It&#8217;s almost ethereal in it&#8217;s telling. You feel a shiver of something that&#8217;s not quite fear, yet is slightly spooky. The best way I can explain the feeling is that shiver you get when you hear a snippet of music from a choir; the chorus swelling and floating on the air. It&#8217;s from a long way-away, barely reaching your ears. It&#8217;s slightly eerie, but beautiful at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S. 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