It’s because she is so desperately lonely that Mary takes to exploring the grounds where she discovers a secret that will change her and those around her.
The manor is as bleak as the land on which it stands, with over a hundred rooms all of which are shut up and locked. Mary is unaccustomed to life outside of India and is unimpressed by the dreary life at Misselthwaite Manor. The Secret Garden is set along the atmospheric wuthering moors of the English Countryside where our protagonist, the newly orphaned Mary Lennox is sent to live. It’s a magical coming-of-age story which still holds that very same enchantment going in as an adult. It’s a classic that’s basically required reading and with that, let’s get into why I adore this book so much… Since that initial step into the garden, Mary’s story is one I’ve read and re-read whenever I’ve been a little blue or lonely.
I first read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s timeless story as a child – probably around the time I took my first tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice. This book is what got me through my reading slump, rekindled my love for vintage classics and left me feeling lighter. I meandered down memory lane feeling all the nostalgia as I followed Mary into her secret garden where hope and friendship blossom and even mends a broken family. The Secret Garden, a real gem of a book, was everything that I needed when I picked it up for yet another re-read. And when a friendly robin helps Mary find the key, she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine… Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked and hidden for years. When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody says she is the most disagreeĪble-looking child ever seen. ‘”People never like me and I never like people,” Mary thought.’ If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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