A review by katiecks
A Victory Garden for Trying Times by Debi Goodwin

I received this book from Dundurn Press in return for an honest review. I can imagine that living though a spouses diagnosis and health decline from cancer requires a lot of processing and time to absorb and reflect it all. I like the idea of expressing the experience and emotions through the changing seasons and the therapy of gardening. The book was slow at times and also hard to read at certain points. That, too, parallels the seasons. It is sad to experience another person’s grief when reading their story. I appreciate the honest and personal nature of this book and it was meaningful to me to read about how the author managed her grief as others did in another time in history.