The Secret Garden

<p>'The Secret Garden' tells the tale of ten year old Mary Lennox a mean-tempered little girl ignored by her parents who is made an orphan in a cholera epidemic in India and sent to Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire to live with an uncle she has never met. From this unpromising start Mary slowly blossoms. She hears of a secret garden left untended for ten years since the death her uncle's beloved wife. Guided by a cheeky robin Mary finds the garden's lost key and with the help of Dickon a local boy with an uncanny understanding of nature sets about restoring the site to its original glory. The garden is transformed and with it Mary herself. No longer self-absorbed she shares her excitement with her bed-bound cousin Colin who is as emotionally stunted as she was and the magic of the secret garden transforms him too both in body and soul. 'The Secret Garden' is a touching and uplifting tale of the joy to be found in friendship and in the connection with the rhythms of Nature.</p>