El Jardín Olvidado / The Forgotten Garden (Paperback)

from tangledthread

A modern gothic mystery that begins with a little girl abandoned on ship to Australia in London in 1913. She arrives at the port in Maryborough, Queensland with only a small white suitcase that contains a book of fairy stories and is informally adopted as daughter of the couple who found her aban...

from mrstreme

The Forgotten Garden is Kate Morton's follow-up novel to her bestselling The House at Riverton. I enjoyed Morton's first novel immensely, and I couldn't wait to read her sophomore effort. All in all, I was not disappointed. The novel starts with four-year-old Nell, stranded on a wharf in Australi...

from WellReadSoutherner

I started out not liking this book. Back and forth between early 1900s, 1975 and 2005. Confusing. But about halfway in something changed and I started to "get" what was happening. The secrets and strangeness. I couldn't put the book down then. I wanted to know what became of it all. Shocking twis...

from runaway84

Kate Morton's novels make me want to write. They inspire me. Hers are the kinds of stories I want to be telling. Rich plots with mysteries and secrets. As I started The Forgotten Garden, I wasn't sure if I would like it or not. A little before halfway through, I had to force myself to stop readin...

from cyderry

This delightful and fascinating book is the story of Eliza,Rose, Nell and Cassandra and how their histories and lives are all intertwined. The story is also told in several different timeframes - 1900's for Eliza and Rose, 1975 Nell's time, and Cassandra in 2005 who connects it all up. The story ...