What is the plot of the butterfly garden?
The Butterfly Garden is a story about Maggie Muir, a recluse and author, who has a brain tumour. Ter tumour is taking her eyesight, so she places an add in the local paper stating, "Eyes Wanted". It is also the story of Erin Turner, a young woman who has just returned to Portheal.
Should I read the butterfly garden by Sophie Anderson?
I highly recommend this book - it was just amazing and written from the heart! Sophie Anderson’s The Butterfly Garden is a story about Maggie Muir, a recluse whose brain tumor is taking her eyesight, and Erin Turner, who the town calls “homewrecker,” and how each of them and the people in their lives deal with secrets.
Is “the butterfly garden” the worst book you ever read?
The Butterfly Garden was, without a shadow of a doubt, the worst book I have ever read. First, I’d like to say that I enjoy the horror/thriller genre. I don’t consider disturbing depictions of murder or rape a reason to rate a book poorly.
What do you think about the butterfly garden by Jennifer Aniston?
This is a new author for me. I thought The Butterfly Garden was excellent. I enjoyed the way the author explores the relationship between Maggie and Erin as Erin ghost writes for Maggie and family secrets and tragedy is revealed. I got swept up in the book after a few pages and didn’t want to stop reading. I found the book incredibly sad at times.

What is the Butterfly Garden about?
Sophie Anderson’s The Butterfly Garden is a story about Maggie Muir, a recluse whose brain tumor is taking her eyesight, and Erin Turner, who the town calls “homewrecker,” and how each of them and the people in their lives deal with secrets. Maggie has placed an ad that states, “Eyes Wanted.”.
How old is Erin in Hookes End?
When twenty-five-year-old Erin flees London for Cornwall and takes a job at Hookes End, a huge house clinging precariously to the Cornish cliffs, all she knows about it are the stories people tell. The owner, reclusive novelist and butterfly enthusiast Maggie, has kept the curtains of her dusty house drawn for many years.
What does Erin do to Maggie?
Erin decides to stay at Maggie's even if the reception is quite cool initially. She decides she will assist Maggie is completing her novel, sure to be her last as Maggie is dying. She finds through Maggie's writing that she has a son, Lucas, who left so many years before, cutting off all contact with Maggie and she with him. Erin develops and attachment to Maggie and as she witnesses Maggie's decline, she promises to seek out Lucas and persuade him to see his mother one last time. Tracking Lucas through social media, she finds him living in Costa Rica, and as a promise to Maggie she travels there to speak to Lucas.
What does Erin want to help Maggie find?
Maggie is desperate to see Lucas again – there is something she needs him to know. Erin wants to help Maggie find peace. But when she travels to the warm white sands and tropical butterfly gardens of Costa Rica to find Lucas, it becomes very clear that he is hiding something too.
Why did Erin and Maggie meet?
Erin and Maggie quickly become friends, and as they are trading stories of their past, they soon realize the reason they met, to help each other get over past hurts. Maggie’s son Lucas ran away many years ago after Maggie blamed him for the death of his sister.
How old is Erin in The Butterfly Garden?
ABOUT 'THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN': When twenty-five-year-old Erin flees London for Cornwall and takes a job at Hookes End, a huge house clinging precariously to the Cornish cliffs, all she knows about it are the stories people tell. The owner, reclusive novelist and butterfly enthusiast Maggie, has kept the curtains of her dusty house drawn for many years. But now she is dying, and Erin, seeing the shadows that cross Maggie’s face, wants to help in any way she can.
Why is Erin tarnished?
For Erin, a young woman tarnished in her small town because of her affair with a married man, as she returns to Cornwall she, for a time, flounders at her parents' home. She knows she is the subject of much gossip and while her heart is breaking, she realizes that the married man she loves, a painter, is never going to leave hi
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