Sarah Singleton: The Poison Garden [2009] paperback DIY 'The perfect book' - Meg

'The perfect book' - Meg Mason

schools of American poetry

Written in the early 1960s

restoring Italian gardens to their full glory following the destruction of World War Two

Sarah Singleton: The Poison Garden [2009] paperback DIY 'The perfect book' - MegIt is the 1850's, and a young boy, Thomas, leaves his family to be apprenticed to a pharmacist, at the behest of his dead grandmother. He also inherits a magical box from her, which provides him entry into a mysterious garden. But while visiting it, he sees a ghostly vision of his grandmother, who tells him she was poisoned, and warns him that he must find the person responsible, and save her precious garden. For she was one of five members of an