The Forgotten Garden Gothic conventions found in books like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, most poignantly the dark and gloomy estate. There are also recognizable parallels between this novel and Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden". Published in the United States by Atria Books, April 2009, , hardback. Kate Morton drew on personal experiences as she wrote "The Forgotten Garden." Morton's own grandmother, just like Nell, found out on her 21st birthday that she was not the biological daughter of her parents. It was a secret she kept until she confided in her three older daughters as an old woman, and this dark
Suffer the Children (novel) Suffer the Children (novel) Suffer the Children is the debut novel by author John Saul, first published by Dell Publishing in 1977. The novel follows the story of a child abductor, who after murdering a young girl one hundred years earlier, returns and begins taking out more children one by one. "Suffer the Children" was initially published in paperback and has sold over a million copies since its release. After a young girl is murdered one hundred years earlier in Port Arbello prior to the beginning of the novel, the one responsible comes back and begins taking out more children,