The Forgotten Garden: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Forgotten Garden: A Novel 6 days ago.

• A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.A mysterious inheritance: On Nell's death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold - secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost.

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 3 books, including The Forgotten Garden: A Novel, 9 days ago.

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• Added an award: Amazon.com's Best Books
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Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 3 books, including The Forgotten Garden: A Novel, 9 days ago.

Belinda H edited the first sentence of The Forgotten Garden: A Novel Wednesday, September 30 2009.

• It was dark where she was crouched but the little girl did as she'd been told.

Shelfari edited the description of The Forgotten Garden: A Novel Saturday, August 1 2009.

• From the internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton , an unforgettable new novel that transports the reader from the back alleys of poverty of pre-World War I London to the shores of colonial Australia where so many made a fresh start, and back to the windswept coast of Cornwall, England, past and present 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-first birthday they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and with very little to go on, "Nell" sets out on a journey to England to try to trace her story, to fi nd 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. At Cliff Cottage, on the grounds of Blackhurst Manor, Cassandra discovers the forgotten garden of the book's title and is able to unlock the secrets of the beautiful book of fairy tales. This is a novel of outer and inner journeys and an homage to the power of storytelling. The Forgotten Garden is fi lled with unforgettable characters who weave their way through its spellbinding plot to astounding effect. Morton's novels are #1 bestsellers in England and Australia and are published in more than twenty languages. Her fi rst novel, The House at Riverton , was a New York Times bestseller.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Forgotten Garden: A Novel Tuesday, July 21 2009.

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Noelle W edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of The Forgotten Garden: A Novel Friday, July 17 2009.

• Added: Time-jumping narrative solves decades-old family mystery with dark Victorian fairy tales.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Forgotten Garden: A Novel Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Kate Morton: (Primary Author)

Noelle W edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of The Forgotten Garden: A Novel Wednesday, July 1 2009.