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Atria
April 2009
On Sale: April 7, 2009
560 pages
ISBN: 1416550542
EAN: 9781416550549
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction
From the internationally bestselling author
of The House at Riverton, an unforgettable new novel
that transports the reader from the back alleys of poverty
of pre-World War I London to the shores of colonial
Australia where so many made a fresh start, and back to the
windswept coast of Cornwall, England, past and
present
A tiny girl is abandoned on a
ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely
alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few
clothes and a single book -- a beautiful volume of fairy
tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and
raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday they tell
her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and with
very little to go on, "Nell" sets out on a journey to
England to try to trace her story, to fi nd her real
identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the
Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet
family. But it is not until her granddaughter, Cassandra,
takes up the search after Nell's death that all the pieces
of the puzzle are assembled. At Cliff Cottage, on the
grounds of Blackhurst Manor, Cassandra discovers the
forgotten garden of the book's title and is able to unlock
the secrets of the beautiful book of fairy tales. This is
a novel of outer and inner journeys and an homage to the
power of storytelling. The Forgotten Garden is fi
lled with unforgettable characters who weave their way
through its spellbinding plot to astounding
effect. Morton's novels are #1 bestsellers in England and
Australia and are published in more than twenty languages.
Her fi rst novel, The House at Riverton, was a New
York Times bestseller.
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