Ellen Herrick

Author of The Sparrow Sisters

About Ellen

The Forbidden Garden is Ellen Herrick’s second novel. Readers of The Sparrow Sisters will recognize Sorrel Sparrow and her sisters in this new tale as Sorrel finds her own story to tell. Ellen was a publishing executive in New York until moving to London for what was to be a two year stay. She returned twenty years later and now divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and a small Cape Cod town very much like The Sparrow Sisters’ Granite Point. FULL BIO

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About The Forbidden Garden

Every garden is a story waiting to be told…

At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England coast, Sorrel Sparrow has hone her rare gift for nurturing plants and flowers. Now that reputation, and a stroke of good timing, lands Sorrel an unexpected opportunity: reviving a long-dormant Shakespeare garden on an English country estate. And though she knows her true home is across the sea, instrinct tells Sorrel that the gardens destiny is entwined with her own, if only she can unravel its secrets…

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