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| The Forgotten Garden | 
 enlarge | Author: Kate Morton
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  104 reviews
Sales Rank: 55
Media: Paperback
Pages: 350
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 2.1
ISBN: 0330449605
EAN: 9780330449601
ASIN: 0330449605
Publication Date: June 6, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Worn/used- good second hand reading copy. Fast dispatch from experienced British seller.
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 Do Not Buy This Book, unless...... November 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
you are prepared to set your alarm 15 mins early to delve into another two pages, carry it with you to read on the train, half hour at lunchtime and well into the night. In other words: you cannot put it down. Admittedly, you need to perserver with the first couple of chapters; but then you're hooked.
It is a spellbinding story interwoven with fairytales mirroring the main character's (Eliza's) and the other characters lives. You enter the world of Nell, Cassandra, Rose, Adeline and of course Eliza and travel back and forth through the twentieth and early twenty first centuries. It is all there,mystery, intrigue, spoiled beauty, envy, avarice, good an evil, the search for closure and coming home. It is beautifully written. Kate Morton has honed her craft to perfection at a very early age. Her characters are fully rounded, her prose delicious and her descriptions ('He was a scribble of a man')memorable. An utter delight!
Absolutely mesmerising...perfect! November 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had read Kate Morton's first book, The House at Riverton, last year and didn't particularly like it, so what prompted me to pick this one up I don't know. But how glad I am that I did so. This is a fantastic, wonderful book that as someone else said, you just want to curl up with on a cold winter night and lose yourself in it. I absolutely adored it. It's not the kind of book I normally read, but maybe that made it all the better for me. The mystery in it is intriguing, and the moving from one period in time to another keeps it all moving along nicely. At 645 pages, it isn't a single page too long, in fact I am really sad to have finished it because I feel sure that whatever I read next cannot possibly live up to this book. One of the best I have read in a long time. Magnificent.
The Forgotten Gareden - Kate Morton November 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Forgotten Garden
Perfect, perfect, perfect! It's books like this that make people fall in love with the written word...............
Just Brilliant November 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A friend read the book and told me that I must read it and I thought it was a brilliant read. The style of writing is easy and the story is very compelling. I couldn't put it down. I might have been put off by the cover as it looks quite dark and I didn't find it attractive but between the cover is a very good book. I hope that the author is busy writing another quality novel and that we don't have to wait too long.
Totally absorbing! November 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having thoroughly enjoyed The House at Riverton, I was really pleased when The Forgotten Garden appeared in time for my holiday. The plot has been described well by others but Kate Morton has another winner with this book - I couldn't put it down and it made me laugh and cry whilst reading which is usually the sign of a good book! I would recommend this to anyone.
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