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  • Published: 1 January 2004
  • ISBN: 9780812969986
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $19.99

The Secret Garden (Illustrated Novel)




Sisterhood Classics - unforgettable novels by female writers

What secrets lie behind the doors at Misselthwaite manor? Recently arrived at her uncle's estate, orphaned mary Lennox is spoiled, sickly, and certain she won't enjoy living there. Then she discovers the arched doorway into an overgrown garden, shut up since the death of her aunt ten years earlier. Mary soon begins transforming it into a thing of beauty- unaware that she is changing too.
But Missalthwaite hides another secret, as Mary discovers one night. High in a dark room, away from the rest of the house, lies her young cousin Colin, who believes he is an incurable invalid, destined to die young. His tantrums are so frightful, no one can reason with him. If only, Mary hopes, she can get Colin to love the secret garden as much as she does, its magic wil work wonders on him.

  • Published: 1 January 2004
  • ISBN: 9780812969986
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $19.99

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester in 1849. After living in poverty, she emigrated to the US in 1865. She wrote over forty books; the best-known today are The Secret Garden, A Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy. She died in 1924.

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