Mary Lennox was nothing like her pleasant and pretty mother. Ignored by her parents and overindulged by her ayahs, she was a spoilt, lonely girl in India Her life takes an unexpected turn when everybody she knew suscumbs to a cholera epidemic. Orphaned, she is shipped off to England to live in her uncle's household at Misselthwaite Manor. Cenfronted by new possibilities, Mary finds herself liking the moors of Yorkshire, But the peace of the huge house is disturbed by a wailing that echoes through its halls, and the beautiful gardens surrounding it are haunted by a tragic past. What are the secrets that the isolated manor hides? Is Mary finally going to be able to make a home out of the house? Is there something really magical and healing about the moors of Yorkshire? Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel forms a perfect combination of mystery, magic and love,

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