The Forgotten Garden

Listened to this one in the car and really enjoyed it. Reader was excellent. Story is looooooong. I agree with the other reviewers that some of the premise laid out for ‘why we're all gathered here today' was a tad contrived, but the story telling is excellent. So if you can suspend some of the disbelief in the beginning, plow through some of the bits that don't really do anything to move the story forward (all very well written - so it's fine), and stop eyerolling towards the end when you want to beat Cassandra over the head with the book because she's so dense and can't seem to get the ‘mystery' figured out.

And I'm firmly in the camp that Linus is a ‘funny uncle' as they say - and I'll happily take the book's allusion to that fact rather than have the gory details spelled out word for word. If you go with that premise: Georgiana and Eliza's strong desire to leave Blackhurst makes a little more sense - as well as Eliza's very strong desire to remove Ivory from the estate.