The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton is a wonderful book to get lost in. A big, thick, well drawn out mystery starting with a little girl arriving alone by boat in Australia in 1913 and not knowing her name or where she came from.

It’s such a delicious mystery that I don’t want to spoil the fun by telling too much here. Only that the little girl returns to Cornwall as a much older woman and searches for the truth about her origins.

We are taken from hot days in Brisbane to cold foggy nights in the English countryside; through overgrown mazes and into hidden gardens, in a realm filled with fairies and ghosts.

Morton had me hooked from the very first page, and kept me up late at night trying to find out what would happen next. I loved this book and I didn’t want it to end.