Ava is immediately smitten with Nathaniel. They learn the man is an aspiring priest named Nathaniel Sorrows, who has been sent to take care of his aunt and help her get her health in order. When they are both 15, they notice a young man arriving at the Widow Marigold Pie’s house in the neighborhood. Nevertheless, Ava befriends a new girl on the block named Cardigan, who is happy to visit with Ava regularly. Nevertheless, Jack still sleeps with Viviane once, who later gives birth to twins –the winged Ava Lavender, and her brother, the very-quiet Henry Lavender.Īva and Henry are kept at home by Viviane, who worries that they will not do well out in the world. He breaks up with Viviane in order to marry a wealthy girl for her money and for the status it will afford him. Jack’s father, however, has high expectation of his son, which Jack can never meet. Viviane, as a child, befriends Jack Griffith, a neighborhood kid, and as teenagers, they fall in love with one another. Connor dies of a heart-attack not long after, leaving Emilienne to run the bakery.
She and Connor then move to Seattle, where several months later, Emilienne gives birth to their only child, a daughter named Viviane. Emilienne promises him one child if he will get her as far away from New York as possible.
As a result, at the age of 20, she marries 31-year-old baker, Connor Lavender, who had previously believed he was not marriageable material due to his deformed leg as a result of childhood polio. Emilienne struggles with love in her youth, and the deaths of her three siblings and both parents leave her shaken and wanting to leave New York. Ava’s maternal family originates from France to settle in New York, including her grandmother, Emilienne. “The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender” is a young adult fantasy novel by Leslye Walton, which recounts the family history, and early life of Ava Lavender, a girl born with wings.
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