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2 unusual facts about The Forgotten Garden


The Forgotten Garden

She discovers her true identity despite having been thought dead for more than 60 years, and finds her way to Tregenna, and Blackhurst Manor, on the coast of Cornwall.

Morton was also inspired by her own home, which sits on a Paddington hillside, and the mysterious Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.


Tregenna Castle

Blackhurst Estate, one of the settings in the 2008 novel The Forgotten Garden by Australian author Kate Morton, is rumored to be loosely based upon Tregenna Castle with the fictional village of Tregenna; which sits under Blackhurst, to be a fictional version of St Ives.


see also

1913 Ais Gill rail accident

The train crash plays an important role in the plotline events of the Kate Morton novel The Forgotten Garden.