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It kept me wondering what was going to happen on the next page and no matter what, it always surprised me. I have never felt so caught up into a book as I did when I was reading The Secret Garden. Landin from UK The Secret Garden is truly the best book I have ever read, that is why I rated it a ten out of ten. It follows Mary and her cousin Colin and friend Dickon into adulthood.ĩ/10 Lives changed by the healing power of beauty.ġ0 positive reader review(s) for The Secret Garden Author Susan Moody wrote an unofficial sequel to The Secret Garden in 1995, published as Return to The Secret Garden and also Misselthwaite: the Sequel to the Secret Garden. Since publication The Secret Garden has become a favourite children’s classic, and influenced numerous modern writers. These beliefs colour The Secret Garden, in particular the understanding that the imagination, together with positive thinking, have a real and tangible power to transform lives. Its author, Frances Hodgson Burnett, was a believer in Christian Science, which provided her with great spiritual comfort after the death of her son Lionel. The Secret Garden was first published in 1909. And though she doesn’t know it yet, Mary’s discovery will change her life for good…

Mary finds a key, and tries it in the lock of the ivy-covered door, which swings open onto a new, secret world. But he hadn’t reckoned on the curiosity of the lonely little girl. Her grieving uncle hid the key and forbade anyone to enter, ever again. But then Martha tells her a story about a secret garden hidden in the grounds, locked for ten years, ever since Mary’s aunt passed away. Left to her own devices, talking only the the chambermaid Martha, she swiftly becomes even more disagreeable. But when a cholera epidemic claims the lives of her mother and father, Mary is sent to live in her uncle’s mysterious old house on the rambling Yorkshire moors.

Little Mary Lennox is brought up in India, a spoilt, sullen brat, whom her wealthy parents are more than happy to leave entirely in the care of their nanny. Lives changed by the healing power of beauty.