Sent from India to a cold house on the Yorkshire moors after losing her parents, Mary Lennox is a sour, solitary child until a locked garden gives her something to tend.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel moves outward from that discovery into friendship, stubborn work and the slow recovery of a household that had stopped expecting anything good. This unabridged Chartwell Classics hardcover carries the complete text with a printed jacket and eight illustrations by Charles Robinson, which makes it a durable copy for a shelf of classics rather than a paperback to be replaced.
Who it suits and why:
• Unabridged text of the 1911 original
• Eight illustrations by Charles Robinson
• Jacketed hardcover from the Chartwell Classics series
• Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also author of A Little Princess
A lasting choice for classic literature collectors, gift-givers and family reading, The Secret Garden in this hardcover form is available at Boipoka.