The Forgotten Garden By Kate Morton
Kate Morton is an Australian author who has won the Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction Book of the Year both in 2007 for The House at Riverton (also available through the Maricopa County Library District) and again in 2009 for this month’s Best in Books, The Forgotten Garden. This month’s read centers on a family of women and their history from Victorian England to present day Australia. While the family characters are not a tightly interwoven group, the story provides themes and events that allow them to eventually connect themselves together. A relevant book if you are thinking about your own family history during upcoming holiday celebrations.
BookList Book Review
In 1913, a little girl arrives in Brisbane, Australia, and is taken in by a dock master and his wife. She doesn't know her name, and the only clue to her identity is a book of fairy tales tucked inside a white suitcase. When the girl, called Nell, grows up, she starts to piece together bits of her story, but just as she's on the verge of going to England to trace the mystery to its source, her granddaughter, Cassandra, is left in her care. When Nell dies, Cassandra finds herself the owner of a cottage in Cornwall, and makes the journey to England to finally solve the puzzle of Nell's origins. Shifting back and forth over a span of nearly 100 years, this is a sprawling, old-fashioned novel, as well-cushioned as a Victorian country house, replete with family secrets, stories-within-stories, even a maze and a Dickensian rag-and-bone shop. All the pieces don't quite mesh, but it's a satisfying read overall, just the thing for readers who like multigenerational sagas with a touch of mystery.--Quinn, Mary Ellen Copyright 2009 Booklist
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