'One of the' gardens is locked up. No one has been in it for ten years.'

'Why?' asked Mary in spite of herself. Here was another locked door added to the hundred in the strange house.

Mary Lennox is a sickly, spoilt, unappealing child, used to getting her own way. When she is left orphaned, Mary is sent to live with her uncle at Misselthwaite Manor, a remote mansion on the Yorkshire moors. She is lonely and miserable until she learns that there is a secret garden in the grounds, a garden with a hidden door that has been locked for ten years. One day, she stumbles upon the key to the overgrown wilderness, the place where her uncle's beautiful wife met with a terrible accident. The discovery brings a miraculous change in Mary, and leads to Misselthwaite Manor giving up its final dark secret.

Format: Paperback
Year published: 2012
Pages: 264
Sub-genre: Classics; children's.
Imprint: Transatlantic Press