The Queen's Reading Room

The Secret Garden

By Frences Hodgson Burnet

Recommended By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Joanna Quinn

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Publish Date: 1911

Children’s book.

Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle. She is spoilt and contrary, but also very lonely. Then one day she finds out about a secret garden located in the ground of Misselthwaite Manor, locked and hidden for years, and discovers the most magical place…

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