I found each time period interesting unlike The Secret Keeper where I just wanted to skip certain parts because the main character in one of the time periods was a dreadful narcissist. In The Forgotten Garden the story moves between 1913, 19. This has been a feature Morton has used in all three books and she does it well. The storyline had a slightly Gothic feel with a smattering of Dicken’s London thrown in which suited those parts of the story where the author did some travelling back in time. The characters were well developed and interesting. I presumed The Forgotten Garden was written later than the other two as it was a much better plot and more smoothly written. Mother didn’t understand that children aren’t frightened by stories that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales. I didn’t pay any attention to the date of their publication (except that I knew they’d been written in recent times) and just read them as I came across secondhand copies. The other two books were The Lake House (2016) and The Secret Keeper (2012) which I read in that order. The Forgotten Garden is the third book by the Australian author, Kate Morton, that I’ve read and it has been the best of the three.
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