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The Forgotten Garden

The Forgotten Garden

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At Nell's joyous 21st birthday party her world falls apart when her father tells her she was adopted as a 4-year-old in 1913, seemingly abandoned on an Australian wharf and unable to remember her name. The knowledge shatters her self-image and changes the course of her life.

A heartwarming, captivating story that is just gorgeous and that I couldn’t have loved more’ My Weekly On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned after a gruelling ocean voyage from England to Australia. All she can remember of the journey is that a mysterious woman she calls the Authoress had promised to look after her. But the Authoress has vanished without a trace. Only one woman in the bunch could feel life solid and worthwhile without a man or child or both, but no one was happy even if got what they wanted or thought they wanted. Along with the contrasting gloominess is the brought growth of a garden starting to flourish along with all the characters that Gosling has created. A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton.Nell and Cassandra run an antique shop together. After Nell's passing, Cassandra's finds all kinds of secrets and is determined to get to the bottom of things. This brings Cassandra to England and a house that Nell had bought. The Forgotten Garden" was my first book by Kate Morton, and I think it's going to be my last as well. That's because I have a feeling that once you've read one of her books, you know what her stories and her writing style is like. It's not bad at all, but it's reminiscent of so many other authors and books I've read which seem predictable and bland to me and don't really leave that much of an impression. Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra’s life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family. It has everything a good story needs a solid plot, an interesting and realistic characters. An unconventional setting really adds to the experience. A really great read.

The Forgotten Garden has generally been received positively by critics and readers alike. Morton is described as having the "storyteller's touch," [4] an author who has "supreme control of her material," and a "writer who is really getting into her stride." [5] Her novel is described as a "beautifully written and satisfying novel," "another beautiful and compulsively readable romantic mystery." [6] Awards and nominations [ edit ] The story hinted at deep, dark secrets, but there weren't really any. I had guessed the mystery of who Nell's mother was very early on and it was so obvious that I can't imagine that the author didn't mean to tell us which is bizarre. There was some weirdness hinted at about an Uncle that never materialised and the standard romance between two paint-by-numbers characters that was flat and uninspiring. The majority of the protagonists were unlikable or simply so dull that you didn't care for their fate anyway. The epilogue was trite. Figured out what "happened" (the mystery of the little girl on the boat) earlier on and scanned much of the rest. Didn't find the characters' behavior believable. Why would supposedly strong women (that's how the characters were drawn) do absurd things that were not in character? The Forgotten Garden exhibits many of the Gothic conventions found in books like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, most poignantly the dark and gloomy estate. There are also recognizable parallels between this novel and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden. [2] Publication history [ edit ]

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Arriving in the rundown seaside town of Collaton on the north-west coast of Cumbria, she realises that her work is going to be cut out for her. But, along with Cas, a local PE teacher, and Harper, a teen whose life has taken a wrong turn, she is determined to get the garden up and running. Then I didn't read on. I didn't read on because this book is based on an idiot, and I have a short fuse when it comes to idiots. Let's just say that I don't suffer them lightly. This map from Kew's archive, the Directors' correspondence, shows the location of the Californian Botanic Garden in relation to the west coast of the United States. The first year



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