mary lennox was horrid. selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in yorkshire. she hated it. but when she finds the way into a secrt garden and begins to tend it, a change comes over her and her life. she meets and befriends a local boy. the talented dickon, and coes across her sickly cousin colin who had been kept hidden from her. between them, the three children work astonishing magic in themselves and those around them. the secret garden is one of the best loved stories of all time.