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| The Forgotten Garden | 
 enlarge | Author: Kate Morton
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (101 reviews)
Sales Rank: 60
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 350
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 2.1
ISBN: 0330449605
EAN: 9780330449601
ASIN: 0330449605
Publication Date: June 6, 2008
Release Date: May 29, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 A Big Yawn November 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thankfully, I found this book in a charity shop, so I didn't feel too peeved when it proved to be a dreadfully irritating read. With a writing style and storyline more akin to the the efforts you'd expect from a student who was part way through a creative writing course - Morton's book is predictable, banal, hodgepodge. Now don't laugh - I also bought The House At Riverton at the same time - well it was going cheap! I started it this week, (in sheer desperation, as I'd read everything in my book stash), but I think it may go unfinished. After enduring another chapter last night, I was losing the will to live. For a simple, well told, story I can recommend a book I've just read - The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd - utter magic!
 Interesting Mystery Suffers from Length November 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good story about a family mystery that is unravelled through the perspective of different characters at different points in time.
It was just a little too long though. Parts of the book aimed at drawing out the suspense killed it for me (a character just about to spill the beans on part of the mystery is interrupted by 2 pages of comments about a seafood dish...annoying!).
 Do Not Buy This Book, unless...... November 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
you are prepared to set your alarm 15 mins early to delve into another two pages, carry it with you to read on the train, half hour at lunchtime and well into the night. In other words: you cannot put it down. Admittedly, you need to perserver with the first couple of chapters; but then you're hooked.
It is a spellbinding story interwoven with fairytales mirroring the main character's (Eliza's) and the other characters lives. You enter the world of Nell, Cassandra, Rose, Adeline and of course Eliza and travel back and forth through the twentieth and early twenty first centuries. It is all there,mystery, intrigue, spoiled beauty, envy, avarice, good an evil, the search for closure and coming home. It is beautifully written. Kate Morton has honed her craft to perfection at a very early age. Her characters are fully rounded, her prose delicious and her descriptions ('He was a scribble of a man')memorable. An utter delight!
Absolutely mesmerising...perfect! November 14, 2008
I had read Kate Morton's first book, The House at Riverton, last year and didn't particularly like it, so what prompted me to pick this one up I don't know. But how glad I am that I did so. This is a fantastic, wonderful book that as someone else said, you just want to curl up with on a cold winter night and lose yourself in it. I absolutely adored it. It's not the kind of book I normally read, but maybe that made it all the better for me. The mystery in it is intriguing, and the moving from one period in time to another keeps it all moving along nicely. At 645 pages, it isn't a single page too long, in fact I am really sad to have finished it because I feel sure that whatever I read next cannot possibly live up to this book. One of the best I have read in a long time. Magnificent.
The Forgotten Gareden - Kate Morton November 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Forgotten Garden
Perfect, perfect, perfect! It's books like this that make people fall in love with the written word...............
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