The Secret Garden
Classical Stories · No. 96 — A locked garden that brings three children back to life.
- Classical Stories
- 41 min
- Ages 15–99
- 7 chapters
About this audiobook
Mary Lennox, an unloved and unpleasant orphan, is sent from India to live at her uncle's vast, gloomy manor on the Yorkshire moors, full of locked rooms and secrets. Lonely and prickly, she hears of a garden that has been shut and forgotten for ten years since her aunt died, and, with the help of a robin, finds the hidden door and the buried key. Secretly, with the country boy Dickon who can charm animals, she begins to bring the neglected garden back to life. In the house she discovers another secret: her cousin Colin, a sickly, spoiled, bedridden boy who believes he is dying and will never walk. Mary drags him out of his misery and into the reviving garden, and as the roses and bulbs come back, so do the children — Mary softening and blooming, Colin standing and walking, and the grieving uncle himself drawn home at last to a garden, and a son, alive again.
Why it's worth a listen
A sour, lonely orphan sent to a gloomy manor on the moors discovers a garden that has been locked and abandoned for ten years — and as she secretly brings it back to life, she brings herself, and a hidden, sickly boy who believes he will never walk, back to life too. Frances Hodgson Burnett's tender classic about grief, growing things, and the quiet magic of care.
A question to keep
Can tending something that seems dead bring it — and you — back to life?
Chapters
- The Sour Girl and the Great Moor
- The Door Behind the Ivy
- The Boy Who Spoke to Beasts
- The Voice in the Corridor
- Out into the Magic
- The Return of the Master
- A Question to Keep