Why the Rose Grew Thorns

Name: Why the Rose Grew Thorns
Author: Orion Rose
ISBN: 9781836105725

Author: Orion Rose
Read by: Leonora Flint
Series: Garden Tales · 1
Language: English
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
ISBN: 9781836105725
Published: 16 October 2026
Imprint: Urban Romantics

secret garden
fairy tale
beetles
botany
london
roof garden
talking plants
family secrets
magical realism
adult fiction

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Five floors above a London street, a secret roof garden keeps its own kingdoms, manners and gossip. Chrysolina, a jewel-striped rosemary beetle, overhears the ancient Rose Queen confess how a mother's heartache grew her thorns. Nearby, a wounded young quince prince, nursed back to health in silk by a gentle Gardener, longs for the Queen's love. When his bitter fruit secretly blushes rose pink, one whisper sets the whole terrace talking in this tender fairy tale for grown-ups.

Author

Orion Rose writes fairy tales for grown-ups about gardens, stars, bumblebees and the quiet things that happen when no one is looking. The stories grow in an enchanted roof garden above the London chimney pots, where the author takes advice from magnolias, grapevines and goldfinches and keeps a quiet eye on one particular star. Why the Rose Grew Thorns is the first of the Garden Tales.

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Ebook · English · Urban Romantics9781836105718