The story starts with the death of a grandmother who has had a strange life as she was first found alone on an Australian wharf at four years old. Once started however, it took my a week to finish it. It took me a while to get to this book, as my book stash is overbooked (pun intended, eheh). There, I bought a used copy of the book The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton.
Kate Morton is a young Australian author living in Queensland. It's an intriguing story, with characters with plenty of flesh on them. It's a mystery in the sense that many of Charles Dicken's book were mysteries. For me it was evocative of books I read 40 years ago- authors like Victoria Holt, Susan Howatch and Antonia Fraser. But just like Kate Morton's earlier book, THE SHIFTING FOG (aka THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON) THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN is not conventional crime fiction. The book has an interesting structure: written in 3 time frames, the first and last separated by over 100 years, and also through a couple of fairy stories written by one of the characters of the book.Īnd it is a mystery, and there is a murder (just in case people try to tell you otherwise). If you take up the book for discussion with your book group, then Kate has even kindly supplied questions. You can read much more of the story on the blurb on the back of the book and also on Kate Morton's own site. Then Nell O'Connor was in search of the truth about herself. In visiting England to see her inheritance Cassandra is retracing a journey her grandmother took thirty years earlier. When her grandmother dies in 2005 Cassandra unexpectedly inherits a cottage on the wild Cornish coast.
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