![]() ![]() Mary’s previous digital life, where she ordered delivery and spent her time gaming online, is replaced by one where she pets a bodega cat and explores the museums of the city. No longer a magical animal whisperer, Dickon is an urban horticulturalist who loves Central Park. The garden isn’t walled but has the potential to be a rooftop paradise. This change is one of the best for the book, as it explains his fear of the outdoors and his tentativeness as well as his eventual improvement. Colin isn’t bedridden, but he stays in his room due to anxiety and panic attacks. Instead of a housekeeper, there’s an assistant, who has some smart things to say about grief instead of a friendly housemaid, a neighbor who’s agreed to work as a temporary nanny/au pair. It belongs to Uncle Archie, who’s never there. After their accident, she’s sent to live in a stunning New York City townhouse. ![]() Mary Lennox is the orphaned daughter of two parents who put all their time into Silicon Valley start-ups. Ivy Noelle Weir ( Archival Quality) does a brilliant job adapting the familiar story into the modern day in The Secret Garden on 81st Street. (A bereaved child ignored? Someone sick and disabled simply being shut away? The foreboding housekeeper? Magical healing? The class issues?) ![]() There’s something beautiful to the story about an orphan girl finding new family and friends through resurrecting a forgotten garden, but it’s also quite dated. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a classic young adult novel, written over a hundred years ago. ![]()
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