Another Gem from Kate Morton - Rated 
Kate Morton gives us another in what is becoming her niche; she offers a mystery told from three different points in time, and only in the last 50 pages or so does she tie up the loose ends.
In 1913, a little girl is found all by herself after a ship docks in Australia. She has nobody waiting for her and no history that can be discerned. In 1975, she finds a few more pieces of the puzzle, and in 2005 her granddaughter Cassandra finally solves the mystery of who Nell was and how she came to be sitting on that little white suitcase on the pier.
One of the things I love best about Kate Morton is her ability to surprise me. I often see plot twists coming from a mile away, and this isn't often true of Ms. Morton's novel. There was one incident that I could see occurring, but I was still interested in seeing how she would bring it to fruition.
My only other quibble, and it's a very minor one, is that the final piece of the mystery is solved accidentally and just a little too tidily. I did want there to be closure, but it felt just a tad too convenient. I stress that this is the tiniest of criticisms, given that I loved the book as a whole so much and couldn't turn the pages fast enough in order to find out what would happen next. I anxiously await anything that Kate Morton does next.
so glad that it's forgotten - Rated 
A friend gave me this to read when I was recovering from THE bug...Oh dear. What a dull, lame, boring book...so pedestrian that it practically walked out by itself.
Hard going - Rated 
I bought it because of all the amazing reviews and could barely credit that it was poor as it was. The characters are unsympathetic and the book is ridiculously long and confusing. The constant jumps in time and location were very tedious and hard to follow. In short not worth the trouble of struggling through. I only finished it because I was on holiday and had nothing else to read.
Better than expected - Rated 
I picked this up in the bookshop quite randomly having not read 'The House at Riverton'. I was a little suspicious, judging from the cover, that it was going to be light and trashy or over sentimental but I have to confess I became hooked. The start was a little slow but as soon as the narrative moves to Victorian England then I quickly got lost in the plot and the mysteries that were unravelling. The author clearly delights in leading the reader in the wrong direction, leaving false clues and proposing various possible outcomes in order to keep you guessing right up until the end. Like all good books I missed it when i'd finished it.
Best read i've found in ages!! - Rated
I bought this book after reading, and enjoying "The House At Riverton" - Morton's first novel. I was slightly apprehensive about "The Forgotten Garden" having read mixed reviews, but I found this book incredibly enthralling! I found it very easy to get into, and found i needed to read more and more - i had to find out what happened. This is a classic mystery, and one i whole heartedly recomend.
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