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The forgotten garden

Morton, Kate, 1976-2016
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A lost child. On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret. On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell O'Connor learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family. A mysterious inheritance. On Nell's death, her grand-daughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold - secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost.
Main title:
The forgotten garden / Kate Morton.
Author:
Imprint:
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2016.©2008
Collation:
552 pages : map ; 20 cm
ISBN:
978174237969297817602916009781760291600 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
BRN:
54731
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