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Atria, April 2009
Hardcover, 560 pages
ISBN-10: 1416550542
ISBN-13: 9781416550549
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From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton, a novel that takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through generations and across continents as two women try to uncover their family’s secret past
A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book—a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-fi rst birthday, they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go on, "Nell" sets out to trace her real identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is not until her granddaughter, Cassandra, takes up the search after Nell’s death that all the pieces of the puzzle are assembled. A spellbinding tale of mystery and self-discovery, The Forgotten Garden will take hold of your imagination and never let go.
“A long, lush, perfectly escapist read.”
—The Daily News (NY)
—The Daily News (NY)
“Morton whisks the reader into scene after vivid scene, sometimes frightening us, often perplexing us, and always providing us with a great deal of entertainment.”
—Star Telegram (Fort Worth, TX)
—Star Telegram (Fort Worth, TX)
Blogcritics.org, December 24, 2009
...Share Ordinarily I hate a book that lets me suss out the ending but Kate Morton switches gears in so many directions and tosses in so many tangential twists that I can forgive her for using the most logical conclusion. What fun, as she adds ...
Woman & Home, July 29, 2009
...in a cathedral library and who brings her close to madness and death. Fast-paced, intriguing and tense. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (Pan 7.99) Why was a little girl abandoned on a ship bound for Australia just before the First World ...
St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 2009
...A woman's search for her origins and long-lost family is at the heart of Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden, but the richly layered plot slips between past and present as the mystery of her identity unfolds. As the book opens, a 3-year-old ...
Stoke-on-Trent Sentinel, June 6, 2009
...science associate at Manchester University. Here, the 28-year-old who lives at Denbigh Close, Knypersley, shares her thoughts on Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden. THE Forgotten Garden is a beautifully written story delving into the lives ...
Seacoast Online, May 22, 2009
...read a book that will transport you as you relax in your own house or on the beach. Kate Morton's an internationally bestselling author who is from Australia. Her first novel, 'The House at Riverton,' was a HUGE success around the world, and ...
Book Reporter, April 17, 2009
...or the late 19th-century retellings found in Andrew Lang?s Fairy Books. These stories --- evoked explicitly in Kate Morton?s THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN --- are emotionally complex, mixing terror with magic, cruel fate with happy endings. (If the ...
Brisbane Courier-Mail, January 30, 2009
...read a book, she prefers if it is historical English 'semi-fiction', one reason she fell in love with Kate Morton's book The Forgotten Garden. As our guest author for the Big Book Club for February, Morton will be travelling throughout the ...
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The House at RivertonThe House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death...Read More
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