{"product_id":"the-child-garden-9781472122919","title":"The Child Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e transplanted to Scotland's wilderness. The school was called Eden but it was no paradise, and after the suicide it closed its doors and the children scattered - taking a secret with them which 30 years later, someone is making sure they take to the grave.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA long-lost friend is a stranger you think you know \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEden  was its name. \"An alternative school for happy children,\" said the  brochure.  \"A load of hippies running wild in the woods,\" said the  locals.  After a suicide it closed its doors and the children scattered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty  years later, it's a care home; its grounds neglected and overgrown, its  only neighbour Gloria Harkness, who acts as tenant-caretaker in a  rundown farmhouse to be close to her son.  Nicky lives in the home,  lighting up Gloria's life and breaking her heart every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicky  and a ragbag of animals aren't enough to keep loneliness at bay, and  when Gloria's childhood friend and secret sweetheart, Stephen \"Stig\"  Tarrant, turns up at her door one night, all she can see is the boy she  knew. She lets him in. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStig's being stalked by an Eden girl, he  says. She has goaded him into meeting her at the site of the suicide.  Except that suddenly, after all these years, the dead are beginning to  speak and suicide is not what they say.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the children of  Eden were sent out into the world they took a secret with them. And  someone is making sure they take it to the grave.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42978260025510,"sku":"9781472122919","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9781472122919_1.jpg?v=1656106599","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/the-child-garden-9781472122919","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}