The Secret Garden (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett | Children's Books | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140621539 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0140621539 Global Overview for this book
Registered by FabClaire of Malvern, Worcestershire United Kingdom on 5/7/2006
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From the blurb...
Mary Lennox, lonely and unwanted, arrives from India to live with her uncle in Yorkshire.
Left to herself there is little to do apart from explore the huge house and its surroundings until, one sunny morning, she stumbles across a secret garden, hidden behind ivy-clad walls. For the first time in her sad short life she has found something to care for and she determines to restore the garden to its former glory. As the garden begins to bloom and is magically transformed no one is left untouched...
Bought as part of my challenge to read all of the BBC's top 100 books...
Mary Lennox, lonely and unwanted, arrives from India to live with her uncle in Yorkshire.
Left to herself there is little to do apart from explore the huge house and its surroundings until, one sunny morning, she stumbles across a secret garden, hidden behind ivy-clad walls. For the first time in her sad short life she has found something to care for and she determines to restore the garden to its former glory. As the garden begins to bloom and is magically transformed no one is left untouched...
Bought as part of my challenge to read all of the BBC's top 100 books...
Journal Entry 2 by FabClaire at Malvern Wells - Book Exchange in Malvern, Worcestershire United Kingdom on Sunday, August 8, 2021
Released 2 yrs ago (8/8/2021 UTC) at Malvern Wells - Book Exchange in Malvern, Worcestershire United Kingdom
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I enjoyed this as a child, but found it quite dated when I re-read it as a grown up.
