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The Secret Garden
- (A Puffin Book)
- Narrated by: Indira Varma
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
'I've stolen a garden,' she said very fast. 'It isn't mine. It isn't anybody's. Nobody wants it, nobody cares for it, nobody ever goes into it. Perhaps everything is dead in it already; I don't know.'
After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is allowed to enter. Then Mary uncovers an old key in a flowerbed - and a gust of magic leads her to the hidden door. Slowly she turns the key and enters a world she could never have imagined.
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- Janet Williams
- 10-03-24
Great story for children
I loved the depictions of old Yorkshire, and the characters were well drawn and interesting.
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- DoctorMummy
- 23-07-18
wonderful classic story
Yorkshire therapy! We thought this was a great story. wonderful to to listen as an adult
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- adriana maximo
- 17-04-21
wonderful
I love it, it's a great story full of adventures, secrets and love.
An opportunity to think about what's true and what we believe really matter and can change our life forever.
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- Rachel Wigle
- 13-03-22
excellent!!
the narration is superb! character voices & accents are amazing captures the story so beautifully.
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- Mrs Susan Rogers
- 20-04-23
Beautifully read
This is one of my all time favourite books and the narrator brings it to life beautifully. I have listened to it many times and will no doubt listen to it again and again.
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- Angela KTM
- 15-08-19
Step into another world
One of my favourite childhood stories, and I try to re- read it often. As the book says, it fills my head with Agreeable things. Wonderful reading, acting, character voices.
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- April Alder
- 11-03-21
Wonderful narration of a childhood favourite
I always though that A Little Princess was my favourite children’s book by Frances Hodgson Burnett but on a reread of this I think it may have overtaken it! The narrator does a wonderful job of bringing all of the characters to life -her Yorkshire accent was good and full of humour and her performance of Mary Lennox from indignant to warm and loving was wonderful. The garden felt real, fresh and full of life and I felt revived after spending time there. I have always loved the way FHB writes nature and particularly animals - they are always so characterful and charming and are what makes her writing so special and magical to me. A good audio production of a classic children’s tale. Much loved and well worth a listen.
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- Rakel M A
- 28-04-21
Simply womderful
As an avid reader I have read this book several times in different languages. The story has always spellbound me, but having heard this reading I'm awestruck. Varma reads with such clear and soft pronunciation that it is just lovely to listen. Every character has its own defined voice, the different dialects are perfectly read - at the same time almost alien (to a non native English speaker), and fully understandable. I just loved it. Will look for more books read by this actor.
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- SjC
- 22-02-21
A classic story, beautify told.
I loved this story when i was a child (a long time ago) and this was the first time i revisited it since then, i had forgotten how unlikable Mary and Colin are in the beginning.
What can i say It's a classic story, beautify told.
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- Dan Edwards creative
- 05-07-20
Brilliant performance of a classic
An outstanding performance from Indira Varma. This book has been criticised for its depiction of colonialism, but I think the narration makes it really clear that we're it's not something to be revelled in. At the start of the book, Mary is not a likeable character, and we're clearly not meant to sympathise with the horrible way that she treats her Indian caregivers. Also, I have read this book several times, but this performance really made me fall in love with Dickon. He's like a male version of Anne of Green Gables. Just the most lovely boy, who has a keen sense of wonder and kindness - nothing is too small for him to notice and appreciate. I think Indira Varma's brilliant Yorkshire accent really brought this character to life for me in a way that I hadn't previously noticed. Overall, a really excellent audiobook.
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