Winner of the Carnegie Medal 1958. Complete & Unabridged
Tom has to spend the summer at his aunt's, and it seems as if nothing good will ever happen again. Then he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen - and everything changes. Outside the door is a garden - a garden that shouldn't exist. Are the children there ghosts, or is it Tom who is the gh...
Philippa Pearce OBE (22 January 1920 ¿ 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books. Her most famous work is the time slip fantasy novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subjec...
When Tom is sent to his aunt and uncle's house for the summer, he resigns himself to boredom. At night, he hears the old grandfather clock downstairs strike eleven, twelve, thirteen... Thirteen! When Tom gets up to investigate, he discovers a magical garden that only he can enter... With a foreword ...
