A stunningly beautiful hardback edition of one of the most famous stories in the world.

Book blurb

After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle’s gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is allowed to enter. Then Mary uncovers an old key in a flowerbed – and a gust of magic leads her to the hidden door. Slowly she turns the key and enters a world she could never have imagined.

My thoughts

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Book: Gift

Classic Club Spin #45

The chosen book for CC Spin #45 was number 18 on my list! That’s the CLASSIC participants are challenged to read by 4th October 2026. 

Information

Published: Penguin – Puffin Clothbound Classics | Penguin links to online sellers | 5th Sept 2019 | 352 pp

Collect Puffin Clothbound Classics:
9780241444313 The Little Prince
9780241663554 The Jungle Book
9780241568811 Charlotte’s Web
9780241688243 Little Women
9780241688250 Peter Pan
9780241688267 The Railway Children
9780241688236 Chinese Cinderella 
9780241411216 Treasure Island
9780241411209 The Wizard of Oz
9780241655702 Watership Down
9780241663578 The Worst Witch
9780241663547 David Copperfield
9780241663561 The Neverending Story 
9780241623909 Stig of the Dump
9780241623916 The Dark is Rising
9780241411162 The Secret Garden
9780241411148 Black Beauty
9780241411155 Dracula
9780241425121 Frankenstein
9780241425138 Wuthering Heights
9780241425114 Tales from Shakespeare
9780241425107 Tales of the Greek Heroes
9780241411193 A Christmas Carol
9780241621196 Grimms’ Fairy Tales
9780241425145 Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales

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Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester in 1849. After living in poverty, she emigrated to the US in 1865. She wrote over forty books; the best-known today are The Secret Garden, A Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy. She died in 1924.