A nice gentle listen for those interested in flowers and the Titanic. The author uses the historical figure, Violet Jessup, for the novel, setting the protagonist on a search as to whether Violet was the florist on the doomed ship. This novel is apparently classified as "women's fiction," whatever that is, but I'm a boy in his 70s, and I quite enjoyed it. The afterword, also, was intriguing. 

This was a beautiful discovery of someone’s past through flowers!!

It was an okay book. Kept waiting for something else to happen, something big but nothing. It was a let down.

The combination of floristry and the Titanic was surprising and enjoyable

Loved It!

I started this book last July before I visited my grandmother. I ended up stopping in the beginning when I became her caregiver. She passed away at the end of July. I hadn’t thought to pick this book back up since I associated it with her loss. But in April I thought it would be a wonderful book to listen to while I did art, and during spring time. This story was absolutely perfect, to help with my own grieving process along with main characters. And Violet's love for flowers matched my grandmothers. My grandmothers favorite flower was violets, and I remember sitting with her and discussing the language of flowers. How people would send certain flowers with their meanings only the receiver would understand. We lost that language in the 1920s, the language of flowers. This story perfectly captures that. And how important flowers are, and smell, memories, and the beauty in fleeting moments. I think the narrator was absolutely perfect and brilliant! What a beautiful reminder that you don’t know how the impact of small moments become butterfly effects into others lives. What a beautiful story.

Great story!

I really enjoyed the book.

What a lovely book!

Narrator was great. Unfortunately I do not share the passion for flowers so I was five hours into this book regretting my VIP choice.

Titanic lore continues to fascinate us.

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