The Garden

(Paperback)

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From a Costa shortlisted children's author and Daunts bookseller, The Secret Garden with an otherworldly twist - for fans of Unsettled Ground, Piranesi, Leave the World Behind and the speculative edge of Margaret Atwood. In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. For as long as they can remember, Evelyn and Lily have only had each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know. Each day is spent in languid service to their home- tending the bees, planting the crops, and dutifully following the instructions of the almanac written by their mother. So, when a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the centre of this new Eden, the reality of their existence is irrevocably shattered. Who is he And where did he come from

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A fairy tale which gets you by the throat and doesnt let go. The Garden is both a horror story and a meditation on love at the end of the world. Its a testament to Newmans extraordinary gifts that its creeping dread never overwhelms its tenderness. The cool restraint of the writing only compounds its devastating power. * Emerald Fennell *

Author Bio

Nick Newman is a pseudonym for Nicholas Bowling who is now a bookseller at Daunt Books and has published several children's novels (WITCHBORN, IN THE SHADOW OF HEROES, and SONG OF THE FAR ISLES). He has been shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year.