Book Review: "The Forgotten Garden" by Kate Morton

I read this book while I was on vacation. It's almost 800 pages so it was perfect for 2 long flights, a lay-over and some hours on the beach. I loved this book. If you liked "The Secret Garden" as a child you will adore this book. The author was inspired by that book and an abandoned garden on a real estate in Cornwall. This book is full of mystery's and they all unravel in the end. It's the kind of book that you'll want to look at the last page but don't do it!!

While reading other reviews, people complained that the story jumps between the lives of 4 generations of women, and they found that confusing. I did not. I could not put this book down and I'm now reading another book by the same author.

From the authors web-site:

 A lost child...On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace. 

A terrible secret...
On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell O'Connor learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.

A mysterious inheritance...On Nell's death, her grand-daughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold - secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost.