Palace in the Garden

Three orphaned siblings are dispatched to Rosebuds, a crumbling country cottage at the edge of nowhere, with nothing but each other and the clothes on their backs. What begins as a tale of displacement takes a sharp turn toward mystery when the children discover traces of something magnificent hidden in the overgrown garden: a palace, half-swallowed by ivy and time, with secrets seeping from its cracked walls. As they dig through layers of dust and memory, the mystery deepens. Who built this place? Why was it abandoned? And what do the strange clues left behind mean for three children who have just lost everything? Molesworth crafts her story with the careful patience of a Victorian gardener, letting her young protagonists earn their discoveries through curiosity and courage. The result is a book that feels like stumbling upon a locked room in your grandmother's attic and finding it leads somewhere impossible.