![]() ![]() Twelve-year-old Franny Whitekraft has lived on the farm with her adoptive parents, Sina and Old Tom, ever since she was abandoned on their doorstep as a baby. But the ancient night garden at East Sooke Farm – locus of a family legend involving star-crossed lovers, tragedy, and hauntings – goes one step further: it grants wishes. The garden in Polly Horvath’s latest middle-grade novel follows in this tradition. ![]() ![]() At once intriguing and healing, the best ones quietly become characters in their own right. Children’s literature abounds with magical gardens: from the walled plot that Mary Lennox coaxes back to life in The Secret Garden, to the setting for a time-travelling friendship in Tom’s Midnight Garden, to Oxford’s Botanic Gardens in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. ![]()
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