Evelina's Garden

Half tragedy, half romance, and a very hard tale to rate well. The writing is good and the narrator is excellent. Evelina Adams creates a garden and devotes her life to it after a crippling disappointment in love. Her young cousin Evelina Leonard, her namesake, comes to live with her when she is past seventy, and instantly it seems that young Evelina is fated to have the exact same type of disappointment, with the son of the man the elder Evelina had loved. Will her fate be the same?