Tajemná zahrada – Hodgson Burnett Frances (2020)

The book whose synopsis you are currently viewing is incredibly beautiful and profoundly powerful. It is one of those rare stories that one succumbs to, whether they are nine, thirty-two, or seventy-eight years old. An exceptional book, a tale written for female readers and just as much for male readers! Right at the beginning, we experience horror: Then terrible things began to happen, and Mary understood what the mysterious atmosphere that hung over that morning meant. Cholera had broken out. It unleashed itself in its worst form, and people fell dead to the ground like flies. The nurse fell ill on the very first night, and it was precisely because of her death that wailing echoed from the servants' quarters. Before the next day arrived, three more servants had died, and the others fled in terror. Panic spread everywhere, and people were dying in the bungalows. Within a few hours, Mary became an orphan, and in a few days, she had to leave colonial India – the only home she had ever known. She set off to distant relatives in England, but in their large dark house, which must have a hundred mostly unused, locked rooms – at least one of which hides a secret – she felt as if she were completely alone in the world. Especially when one first encounters rows of boring vegetable patches all around and behind...