The forgotten garden / Kate Morton.
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TextPublisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2008Description: 494 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781741149982 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Abandoned children. -- Fiction | Family - Fiction | Country homes -- England -- Fiction | Life change events -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | British -- Australia -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Family relations -- Fiction | Domestic fiction | English fiction -- Australia | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction | Abandoned children | Country homes | English fiction | Grandmothers | Inheritance and succession | Grandmothers -- Fiction | Grandmothers -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | English -- Australia -- Fiction | Abandoned children -- Australia -- Fiction | Country homes -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- Fiction | Maryborough (Qld.) -- Fiction | Queensland -- Fiction | Brisbane (Qld.) -- Fiction | Cornwall (England : County) -- Fiction | Australia | England -- Cornwall (County)Genre/Form: Family saga fiction | Family -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Domestic fiction | Domestic fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Fiction. | Family saga fiction | General fiction | Domestic fiction. | Domestic fiction DDC classification: A823.4 LOC classification: PR9619.3.M67306 | F67 2008Summary: "A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, 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."--Provided by publisher.
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"A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, 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."--Provided by publisher.
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