Mary Lennox is a sour, spoiled child, neglected by her parents in colonial India and used to getting her way. When illness leaves her orphaned, she's shipped off to live with an uncle she's never met in a vast, gloomy manor on the windswept Yorkshire moors. The house is full of locked rooms, strange noises, and secrets no one will explain, none more intriguing than the rumor of a walled garden that's been shut away and forgotten for years. Burnett's classic 1911 novel begins as a lonely, contrary girl starts to wonder what might be waiting behind that hidden door.