Sent away from everything she's known, Mary Lennox finds herself in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors until she stumbles upon a locked garden that is overgrown and silent. As she begins to tend to it, something begins to shift in her and in others. Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden is a story of change and new beginnings.
Frances Burnett Hodgson's novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing and uplifting. It is regarded as one of the best children's books written in the twentieth century. Mary Lennox, a sickly ten-year-old girl, adrift in the world after both her mother and father die, is sent to Yorkshire to live with an uncle whom she has never met, at his isolated house, Misselthwaite Manor. Initially Mary …