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A review by underwaterlily
Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards
5.0
Mandy is a treasure! Of course, try being twelve and explaining to a priest that you chose “Rose” as your confirmation name because, when you were ten, you read a book about a lonely little girl who discovers a cottage in the woods and decides to fix it up. Mandy pilfers seeds from the orphanage and plants a beautiful English garden to call her very own.
“You don’t think ‘Mary’ or ‘Bernadette’ will suit you better?”
“No, I love flowers! The book of saints says Rose of Lima is the patron saint of gardeners?”
“Do you want to be a gardener, then?” I had no idea how to tell the priest what I’d realized: a children’s book about a garden had made me want to be a writer.
“You don’t think ‘Mary’ or ‘Bernadette’ will suit you better?”
“No, I love flowers! The book of saints says Rose of Lima is the patron saint of gardeners?”
“Do you want to be a gardener, then?” I had no idea how to tell the priest what I’d realized: a children’s book about a garden had made me want to be a writer.