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The Forgotten Garden
Historical mystery
The Forgotten Garden
In 1913, a four-year-old girl arrives alone on an Australian wharf with a small suitcase and a book of fairy tales, unable to explain who abandoned her. Raised as Nell by the dockmaster's family, she learns the truth at twenty-one and spends decades tracing her origin toward a Cornish estate and a hidden garden. After Nell's death, grieving granddaughter Cassandra inherits the cottage and resumes the unfinished search through the lives of an aristocratic family and a mysterious Authoress. Lush and intricately plotted, this novel suits readers who enjoy multigenerational mysteries, Cornwall, abandoned-child stories, Gothic houses, fairy tales, gardens, and secrets solved across several timelines.
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