The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

1865 • 292 pages

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Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.


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I read this book as a child and re-reading it sparked a lot of nostalgic joy.
It's a lovely little story with a profound sense of found family.
The book is very much a product of it's time and requires some critical reading but I still enjoyed it greatly.

August 3, 2022

Very nice children's book. I learned some Yorkshire accent with it.

August 17, 2023

listened to this audiobook while being told to k*ll myself on twitter because I said I hated Julian blackthorn.. not the greatest combo. I no longer have a twitter

January 1, 2019

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