The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Synopsis

A lost child: On the eve of the First World War a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.A mysterious inheritance: On Nell`s death her granddaughter Cassandra comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold - secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost. --> Genre: Literary Fiction Mystery

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