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The Secret Garden
Oct 7, 2024 12:26 PM

Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a magical novel for adults and children alike. This new hardback is one of five special Puffin Classics editions created in partnership with the world-famous V&A Museum, with exquisite cover designs from their William Morris collection.

'I've stolen a garden,' she said very fast. 'It isn't mine. It isn't anybody's. Nobody wants it, nobody cares for it, nobody ever goes into it. Perhaps everything is dead in it already; I don't know.'

After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is allowed to enter. Then Mary uncovers an old key in a flowerbed - and a gust of magic leads her to the hidden door. Slowly she turns the key and enters a world she could never have imagined.

Reviews

Condie strikes a deep emotional cord with this coming-of-age story

—— Publishers Weekly

Honest, lovely, and sad.

—— Kirkus Reviews

A fast-paced, riveritng read, offering incisive information oon this modern day hero. Stunning full colour photos and snappy fact files complement this superior biography

—— Fen Coles , Letterbox Library

It's an inspiring story remininding us just how impressive a character Obama is

—— Bournemouth Daily Echo

Jacqueline Wilson writes with great skill and humour about the reasons and results of bullying . . . Very readable . . .Tanya and Mandy will remain in readers' minds long after they close the book

—— Junior Bookshelf

Mandy's multiple dilemmas are sympathetically unravelled in this super story of true friendship

—— Carousel

Treading a sensitive, complex path among ethical, social and family issues, and dealing with bullying, illiteracy and friendship, this is a skilfully judged story that provokes lots of discussion

—— Guardian
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