The Secret Garden

Author: Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson

Interest age: from c 10 years

Published on 7 September 2018 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Wordsworth Collector's Editions' series.

Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it.

But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across her sickly cousin Colin who had been kept hidden from her. Between them, the three children work astonishing magic in themselves and those around them.

The Secret Garden is one of the best-loved stories of all time.