The Forgotten Garden
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In 1913, a tiny girl is found abandoned on a ship bound for Australia, clutching a suitcase and a single book of fairy tales. Raised by the dockmaster and his wife, Nell O’Connor’s world shatters on her twenty-first birthday when she learns the truth of her abandonment. With her sense of self in pieces, she sets out for England, seeking her real identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast, and the tangled secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family.
Decades later, after Nell’s death, her granddaughter Cassandra inherits Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden. The locals whisper of secrets held within its grounds, secrets tied to the Mountrachets and a mysterious authoress who penned dark fairy tales. It is here, amidst the shadows of the past, that Cassandra begins to assemble the scattered pieces of a century-old mystery, uncovering the truth about her family and the lost little girl.
Publication date
February 16, 2010
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4.5/5
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560
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English
Publisher
Atria Books
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