The Daffodil Days classics Botanical art

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from Co-Loa in the Red River valley of Vietnam to the rain-lashed forts south of Hadrian’s Wall

' - Candice Brathwaite

This book should be on everyone's TBR list

'An incredible and stirring story

The Daffodil Days classics Botanical artAuthor: Bain, Helen Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 12 March 2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Circus) in the United Kingdom. Hardback 256 pages 241 x 162 x 28 448g 'Deeply researched and utterly convincing' Guardian'Not a word is out of place. Full of understated lyricism an exquisite and spellbinding debut' Heather Clark, author of Red Comet 'Luminous Helen Bain's prose is exact and alive, and the novel builds