About The Forgotten Garden
A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton.
Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra’s life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace—the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century—Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past; little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself.
- Complete Title: The Forgotten Garden
- Format: Paperback
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 648
- Publication Time: June 1, 2008
- Publisher: Pan Books
- ISBN: 0330449605
- ISBN13: 9780330449601
About Kate Morton
Kate Morton
KATE MORTON is an award-winning, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author. Her seven novels – The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper, The Lake House, The Clockmaker’s Daughter, and Homecoming – are published in over 45 countries, in 38 languages, and have all been number one bestsellers around the world.
Kate Morton was born in South Australia, grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland, and now lives with her family in London and Australia. She has degrees in dramatic art and English literature, and harboured dreams of joining the Royal Shakespeare Company until she realised that it was words she loved more than performing. Kate still feels a pang of longing each time she goes to the theatre and the house lights dim.
“I fell deeply in love with books as a child and believe that reading is freedom; that to read is to live a thousand lives in one; that fiction is a magical conversation between two people – you and me – in which our minds meet across time and space. I love books that conjure a world around me, bringing their characters and settings to life, so that the real world disappears and all that matters, from beginning to end, is turning one more page.”
You can find more information about Kate Morton and her books at https://www.katemorton.com or connect on http://www.facebook.com/KateMortonAuthor or instagram.com/katemortonauthor/
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Reviews The Forgotten Garden
*Kat looks at The Forgotten Garden**Kat looks at the beckoning stack of other books to read**Kat looks back at the first 33 pages of The Forgotten Garden**Kat groans*So basically there’s this woman. L…
Kat Kennedy
5 stars to Kate Morton’s The Forgotten Garden. The plot is mesmerizing and the story-telling of the grandmother and the granddaughter is unparalleled. Morton jumps from time period to time period, cou…
James
Aussie author Kate Morton deftly managed to push nearly every one of my reading buttons with her lovely book, The Forgotten Garden:1. Not so young woman with a haunted past – check2. Not-so-fairy-Gran…
Hannah
While this is ostensibly a novel of secrets spanning four generations, most of the “secrets” are fairly obvious. I kept waiting for the blow to fall — murder? incest? buried treasure?? Alas, no…
Laura
God Bless A Milk Cow!Once again, most of my friends on GR loved this book to death! I’m going to quit picking books my friends love to death! I have had this book for a year or more. I got it from th…
Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ Martin
Sometimes when people keep recommending a book, you should listen and read that book. The Forgotten Garden is such a book. You finally read it and end up wondering why in the world you waited so long…
Kathy
In the midst of chaos and mayhem there are always books and reading and for that I am eternally grateful. I needed to escape this week and Kate Morton’s The Forgotten Garden was just what the Doctor…
Dem
Oh, this was such a delight to read! I didn’t think a story about a family mystery could be so entertaining throughout, while still staying realistic and not going too over the top.Kate Morton just ha…
Annemarie
***Added Later:My summary of this book would have to be this: it is an oddly-plotted book about very stupid people written in lovely language.But oh, the idiot characters. Honestly. Why would Nell be…