Literary Lovers – Year-Round Adult Book Club

A book cover of "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illustrated by Tasha Tudor, featuring a girl in a garden setting.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Brunett |Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on England’s Yorkshire moors after the death of her parents. There she meets a hearty housekeeper and her spirited brother, a dour gardener, a cheerful robin, and her wilful, hysterical, and sickly cousin, Master Colin, whose wails she hears echoing through the house at night.
With the help of the robin, Mary finds the door to a secret garden, neglected and hidden for years. When she decides to restore the garden in secret, the story becomes a charming journey into the places of the heart, where faith restores health, flowers refresh the spirit, and the magic of the garden, coming to life anew, brings health to Colin and happiness to Mary.
Book club meeting May 13th at 7:00 pm

September 3rd | Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
October 1st | Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
November 12th | A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
January 14th | Let’s Talk About It | The Upstairs Delicatessen by Dwight Garner
February 11th | Let’s Talk About It | The American Plate by Libby H O’Connell
March 11th | Let’s Talk About It | Food, A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
April 8th | Persuasion by Jane Austin
May 13th | The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett