Publisher's Synopsis
When Mary Lennox, a spoilt and obstinate girl whose parents have died of cholera, is sent from India to England, she becomes inescapably drawn into the secrets of Misselthwaite Manor and its inhabitants. What is the strange crying she hears in the night? Who is the boy that talks with the birds? And where is the key to the forbidden garden that was sealed up ten years ago? Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic tale of loss and renewal is one of the most powerful children's books ever written...