Wednesday, January 2, 2019

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (February 2019)

 
Book Choice for February 2019
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Chosen by Jamie West

Summary...

A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton.

Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra’s life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.

Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace—the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century—Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past; little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself.




Video of Author talking about the book.
 
Review about the book.
 
 


Note from Jamie West: I found it to be like The Secret Garden by Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett.  The Secret Garden is a public domain book and it's free to read.

Audiobook version of The Secret Garden.
 
The Secret Garden Movie in 1987.
 
 

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