The Secret Garden

Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor a creature of fury: spoiled, sullen, and utterly alone. Her parents are dead, cholera swept them away in India, and now she is packed off to a vast, gray English estate where even the servants seem to wish she hadn't come. The house is full of locked doors and whispered secrets. Her cousin Colin, hidden away in his own wing, screams at the world from behind closed doors. But Mary is not a child who will stay defeated. When she finds the key to a garden that has been locked for ten years, she discovers something that no one else dares to believe in: the stubborn, improbable magic of things coming back to life. With the help of Dickon, a Yorkshire boy who speaks the language of animals and plants, she tends the hidden space. What blooms there transforms everything: Colin's health, Mary's heart, and the deadened spirit of Misselthwaite itself. This is a novel about what grows when we stop being so angry and let the world in.