Consider the Lily

Lose yourself in the captivating novels by bestselling author Elizabeth Buchan, perfect if you love Harriet Evans or Deborah Moggach.

When a choice must be made between love and duty, solace comes in unexpected forms...


Summer, 1929. The Hinton Dysart estate is dying from lack of money, and Kit Dysart, the heir, sees no way out. Then, at his sisters wedding, he meets the vibrant Daisy Chudleigh and her cousin, the heiress Matty Verrall. In love with Daisy but troubled by his familys decline, Kit chooses to marry Matty, though neither Kit nor Daisy is able to forget the other.

When Matty, growing increasingly unhappy in her troubled, empty marriage, decides to re-create the estates garden, she discovers solace and a gift of which she never dreamt.

A haunting, passionate story played out between three people, Consider the Lily is also a poignant and beautiful novel of England between the wars that propels the reader into its own rich and nostalgic world.