The Forgotten Garden is about multiple generations and family secrets. In 1913, a young girl shows up at a dock in Australia with no memory of who she is. She is adopted by a family and raised as their own until they tell her the truth when she is an adult. Years later, her granddaughter uncovers...
Man, I've been MIA lately, oops. I finished listening to this kind of ages ago, but totally forgot to update here. This is a really good audiobook and I enjoyed the narrator a lot. I think I've already reviewed the book-book (goes to check, hmm, I've rated it on GR, but didn't write a review, I shou...
27/05 - I think Nell was a bit of an ungrateful fool to pull away from her sisters and father and fiancee (I understand that even less) just because she found out she was "adopted". That doesn't mean that anyone loved her any less, in fact you might say that her parents loved her more as they chose...
I was disappointed in this - I found it overlong, with one or two more story threads than seemed necessary (or interesting, given how much of the same ground they cover), and then it fizzled out with a pretty obvious 'secret' reveal.
This is a multi-generational story, each a journey of self-discovery between Cassandra (2005), Nell (mid-1970’s), and Eliza (mostly early-1900’s). As Eliza starts over, Nell tracks down her family, and Cassandra pieces both Eliza and Nell’s trials together, Morton shows the loneliness and the strugg...
Okay this book had me guessing throughout the whole thing. I thought for sure one man was an extreme baddie, but he was just a really weird slight baddie, kind of. (When you read the book you'll understand.) Then I thought that there was a romance between two people but no it was with someone else...
I really liked this book. I appreciated the way everything came full circle in the end.I found it interesting how she wove the three stories together. I will be reading more of Kate Morton's books in the future.
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