'Selfish and spoilt, Mary Lennox hates staying with her uncle in Yorkshire. But when she finds the way into the secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life.'

A widely loved book, The Secret Garden has been a favourite with children and young adults for decades. It sits in the publisher, Wordsworth Editions' Heritage Collection, has a sewn binding and is quarter bound in linen cloth with an elegant linen-grained paper cover design.

The cover designs for these books are based on botanical prints by William Morris and William Kilburn. The Morris and Kilburn designs are also on the first two pages and endpapers, and all pages are gilded in metallic gold.

There are 352 pages in this book laid out for comfortable reading.There are also silk ribbon bookmarks. 

Note the Wordsworth Editions books are smaller than the Peter Pauper Press books. The Secret Garden measures 18.5 cm x 13.5 cm.