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The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
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The Forgotten Garden

by Kate Morton

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A bleak but enthralling tale that slowly pulls in the reader, a mystery that spans decades and half the world. Wonderful summer read. ( )
ViaLys | Jul 9, 2009 |  
I really really really enjoyed this book, it was simple and easy to relate to the charectors and the plot really held my attention. But -yes there is a but - this book is so much like the Frances Hodgeson Burnett version and to me it is like she has stolen the idea and changed it to suit. Sorry Frances, but even though I enjoyed it, with every page all I could think about was how excedingly similar it was to the Secret Garden. Even the title seams like a rip off. Saying that though, it is a great read, and I found it easy to pick up where one time period left off and another started.

Personally, I wonder whether the people who look after the Copywrite for the Secret Garden haven't jumped on the bandwagon with this and asked a few questions. Sorry Kate.....

P.s Very nice twist though at the end. It certainly had me fooled. ( )
Freisianbeauty | Jun 25, 2009 |  
I really, really enjoyed this book, partly because it was so reminiscent of the The Thirteenth Tale, which is one of my very favorite books.
librarygranny | Jun 23, 2009 |  
Very good book. ( )
JCF1 | Jun 16, 2009 |  
I read this for my book club this month. It is an excellent summer fiction. ( )
sherrybeth | Jun 14, 2009 |  
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For Oliver and Louis More precious than all the spun gold in Fairyland
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It was dark where she was crouched but the little girl did as she'd been told.
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A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.A mysterious inheritance: On Nell's death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold - secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost.

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