The Secret Garden

Nov 15, 2024 1:23 PM

Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett,Helena Carter

The Secret Garden

Penguin presents the abridged audiobook edition of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, read by Helena Bonham Carter.

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

A curring-edge storyline about teenage suicide bombers, strong language and more acromyms than a set of DfES guidelines

—— Tony Bradman , TES

Rip-roaring action

—— Sunday Express

Great stuff . . . Highly recommended

—— Reading Matters

Gripping

—— Independent on Sunday

Highly explosive

—— The Bookseller

Really funny, silly but sad

—— Newcastle Upon Tyne Evening Chronicle

Utterly memorable . . . Jacqueline Wilson has a beautifully light touch for such difficult subjects

—— SW Magazine

Jacqueline Wilson writes the kind of books you just can't put down, making you feel so many emotions that you don't know whether to laugh or cry . . . a must-read for teenagers

—— Newcastle Upon Tyne Evening Chronicle

Chosen by a reader as her favourite book

—— Go Girl

Moving and intense story involving domestic violence and breast cancer but which manages to be uplifting about both.

—— Bournemouth Daily Echo

Yet another brilliant book that you never want to put down.

—— Newcastle Upon Tyne Evening Chronicle

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