The Forgotten Greenhouse

Some places are waiting to be found. So are some people.

When Anna drags her building’s recycling bins across the crumbling courtyard of a decommissioned Czech railway station, she stumbles upon a hidden greenhouse—and the quiet old man who tends it. Jobless, newly divorced, and adrift in a city that no longer feels like home, Anna steps through the rusted door expecting nothing. What she finds is a tangle of green life, pigeon gossip, terrible coffee, and a kind of quiet magic she never thought she’d believe in again.

With graceful prose and a deeply human gaze, this tender and atmospheric story reveals the quiet strength of reinvention, the dignity of overlooked lives, and the quiet power of care in unexpected places. The Forgotten Greenhouse marks Liz Blackburn as a striking new voice in literary fiction and a chronicler of fragile, hard-won hope.