In her inimitable style, Viola Shipman explores the unlikely relationship between two very different women brought together by the pain of war, but bonded by hope, purpose...and flowers Iris Maynard lost her husband in World War II, her daughter to illness and, finally, her reason to live.
Iris propagates her own daylilies and roses while tending.
Walled off from the world for decades behind the towering fence surrounding her home, Iris has built a new family...of flowers.
In her inimitable style, Viola Shipman explores the unlikely relationship between two very different women brought together by the pain of war, but bonded by hope, purpose...and flowers Iris Maynard lost her husband in World War II, her daughter to illness and, finally, her reason to live
