![]() A little girl, about four years old, is found all alone on the docks after a ship has docked - somehow, she's come all the way from England and no one seems to know her name or who she belongs to. The book starts about 1905, in Australia. Basically, this is a historical mystery, which jumps back and forth between three main characters, following their lives across two continents and more than 100 years. So, if you are one of the 12 other people in the world who has not read this book yet (there are more than 83,000 reviews on Goodreads), here's the setup. (Everyone else loved it).īut people kept raving about The Forgotten Garden, so I gave it a shot, even though it's more than 550 pages long. I also disliked Water for Elephants and I was really underwhelmed by The Paris Wife, which we discussed last month. ![]() I hated, hated, hated The Memory Keeper's Daughter, which was really popular a few years ago in fact, I hated it so much I demanded a refund from Target. There are certain books that become extremely popular with book groups, but when it comes time to choose books for my two groups at the library, I'm sometimes leery - there are some books that absolutely everyone loves, and I end up hating them. I have to confess, sometimes I'm a bit snobbish when it comes to book group books. It seems to be one of these books that a lot of book groups are reading. ![]() ![]() This book has been on my radar forever, but somehow, I'd never gotten around to reading it. ![]()
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