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ninaschw
, April 14, 2009
A hauntingly beautiful story that you will remember long after reading. Tom, convalescing one summer at his aunt's stuffy flat, discovers a magic Victorian garden that only comes awake at midnight, and becomes friends with Hatty, a little girl playing in the garden. Each night when they meet, she seems a little older, until, at their climactic last visit, she is a young woman. If Tom is visiting the past, what happened to Hatty, and the house and garden where she grew up? The loss of childhood, and the people and places we love, is powerfully evoked, but the book is hopeful rather than sad.
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