The Story of The Secret Garden
One morning, young Mary Lennox wakes to find her life changed forever. It is 1911, in India, and Mary's parents, together with all their household staff have died during an outbreak of cholera. As if in a dream, she is transported to a new and unfamiliar World - the wild and forbidding Yorkshire moors - and to Misselthwaite Manor, the gloomy house of her uncle and guardian, Archibald Craven. Cast adrift and left to play alone, Mary makes friends with Martha, a chambermaid, and soon discovers that Misselthwaite is a house of many secrets. She is sure she can hear the sound of someone crying mingled with the wind that howls around the house at night and when she meets her uncle, she learns the story of her beautiful Aunt Lily who died tragically ten years ago and from whose memory, Archibald can never escape.
Likewise, outside in the gardens, things are not as they seem. Inspired by a tale of a locked walled garden hidden somewhere in the grounds that belonged to her Aunt Lily, Mary sets off to explore.
She meets Dickon, a strange boy who can talk to animals, Ben Weatherstaff the surly head gardener and an insistent robin who seems to be trying to tell her something. It's not long before Mary begins her quest to find the key to the secret garden, little knowing that this key will also unlock the secrets of the house and launch her on a magical journey.