YA contemporary, retelling, LGBTQ
RELEASE DATE: September 5, 2023
This queer YA reimagining of The Secret Garden subverts the cishet and white status quo of the original in a tale of family secrets wonderful and horrifying.
Mary Lennox didn’t think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she’s never met.
At first the impassive, calculating girl believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto: cold, isolating, and anything but cheerful, where staff is treated as staff and never like family. But as she slowly allows her heart to open like the first blooms of spring, Mary comes to find that this strange place and its strange people—most of whom are Indigenous—may be what she can finally call home.
Then one night Mary discovers Olive, her cousin who has been hidden away in an attic room for years due to a “nervous condition.” The girls become fast friends, and Mary wonders why this big-hearted girl is being kept out of sight and fed medicine that only makes her feel sicker. When Olive’s domineering stepmother returns to the manor, it soon becomes clear that something sinister is going on.
With the help of a charming, intoxicatingly vivacious Metis girl named Sophie, Mary begins digging further into family secrets both wonderful and horrifying to figure out how to free Olive. And some of the answers may lie within the walls of a hidden, overgrown and long-forgotten garden the girls stumble upon while wandering the wilds…
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Other Remixed Classics:
A Clash of Steel (Treasure Island)
So Many Beginnings (Little Women)
Travelers Along the Way (Robin Hood)
What Souls Are Made Of (Wuthering Heights)
Teach The Torches to Burn (Romeo & Juliet)
Into the Bright Open (Secret Garden: coming September 2023)
Most Ardently (Pride & Prejudice: coming January 2024)
Thank you to @turnthepagetours, @mackidsbooks, @cherie.dimaline for sending me a copy of the book and teaming up with me for this tour! nd a huge thank you to @macmillaaudio for providing me with a widget of the audiobook! I loved it!
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