"Salainen puutarha" by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a children's novel first published in 1911. When orphaned Mary Lennox arrives at her uncle's gloomy Yorkshire manor, she discovers a locked garden that has been abandoned for ten years. As Mary explores this forbidden place, she befriends a local boy and uncovers her sickly cousin Colin, hidden away in the vast house. Together, the children tend the secret garden, and its transformation begins to heal more than just the neglected plants within its walls. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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