Return to the Secret Garden

Life is magical. Hope never dies. Miracles do happen. Holly’s sequel to classic story The Secret Garden is like a toasted marshmallow for your heart. If you don’t like marshmallows, replace that phrase with ‘like an adorable puppy sleeping on your stomach’. Or perhaps, ‘like warming your hands by a roaring log fire with a mug of hot chocolate’. We’re back at Misselthwaite Hall. But now it’s 1939: the start of World War Two. Emmie is one of a group of children evacuated to the country mansion. She is heartbroken at being parted from her family and beloved cat. But that was before the crying boy. That was before finding Mary’s diary. That was before the secret garden…