The Forgotten Garden

Összefoglaló

The haunting second novel from the author of the bestselling, The House at Riverton. 1913: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found lost and abandoned after a gruelling ocean voyage from England to Australia. 1975: Now grown up, Nell travels to England to discover the truth about her parentage. Her quest leads her to Cornwall, and to a beautiful estate called Blackhurst Manor which had been owned by the Montrachet family. 1995: On Nell's death her grand-daughter, Cassandra, comes into a surprise inheritance. A beautiful but abandoned ruin in Cornwall, Cliff Cottage, in the grounds of Blackhurst Manor, is notorious amongst the locals for the secrets its holds - secrets about the doomed Montrachet family. But it is at Cliff Cottage, and in its hidden garden, that Casssandra will uncover the truth about the family and why little Nell was abandoned all those decades before.