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The Forgotten Garden
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Overview
The Forgotten Garden is the second novel by Australian author Kate Morton. First published in 2008, the book is classified as a historical mystery and won the Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction in 2009. It later became a New York Times Best Seller. The Forgotten Garden is heavily influenced by the Gothic novel genre and pays homage to The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Events in the story were inspired by the author’s own family history.
Other works by this author include The Secret Keeper, Homecoming, and The Clockmaker's Daughter.
Plot Summary
The novel takes place in a variety of locations and spans more than a century between 1900 and 2005. The limited third-person narrative unfolds in nonchronological order and is principally told from the perspective of its three major characters: Eliza Makepeace from 1900 to 1913 in London and Cornwall; Nell O’Connor from 1913 to 2005 in Australia, London, and Cornwall; and Cassandra O’Connor from 1975 to 2005 in Australia, London, and Cornwall.
The plot concerns a 4-year-old girl abandoned on a boat dock in Australia in 1913.
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