Sarah Singleton: The Poison Garden [2009] paperback DIY Written in the early 1960s

Written in the early 1960s

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Sarah Singleton: The Poison Garden [2009] paperback DIY Written in the early 1960sIt 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