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Monday, October 29, 2007

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett


This is a children's book first published in 1911, so it's not for everyone but it really is a good story. Spoilt and neglected Mary is orphaned and sent from India to live with her uncle in a mansion on the wild Yorkshire moors.
She is miserable - disliked by everyone, lonely and alone.
The mansion is vast and secretive. Someone cries in the night, and there's a garden she must never go in. But slowly, Mary adjusts and then she meets Dickon and Colin and together they pull off a miracle.