ABOUT THE BOOK:
The plot centres around Mary Lennox, a young English girl who returns to England from India, having suffered the immense trauma by losing both her parents in a cholera epidemic. However, her memories of her parents are not pleasant, as they were a selfish, neglectful and pleasure-seeking couple. Mary is given to the care of her uncle Archibald Craven, whom she has never met. She travels to his home, Misselthwaite Manor located in the gloomy Yorkshire, a vast change from the sunny and warm climate she was used to. When she arrives, she is rude, stubborn and given to stormy temper tantrums. However, her nature undergoes a gradual transformation when she learns of the tragedies that have befallen her strict and disciplinarian uncle whom she earlier feared and despised. Once when he’s away from home, Mary discovers a charming walled garden which is always kept locked. The mystery deepens when she hears sounds of sobbing from somewhere within her uncle’s vast mansion. The kindly servants ignore her queries or pretend they haven’t heard, spiking Mary’s curiosity.
REVIEW BY DANIA: (NONE)
OTHER INFORMATION:
The Secret Garden is often noted as one of the best children’s books of the 20th century.
TRIGGER WARNINGS:
- Animal death
- Body shaming
- Death
- Death of parent
- Drug use
- Misogyny
- Racial slurs
- Slavery
- Toxic friendship, and
- Toxic relationship
