Garden by Nick Newman

From a Costa shortlisted children’s author and Daunts bookseller, The Secret Garden with an otherworldly twist – for fans of Unsettled Ground, Piranesi, Leave the World Behind and the speculative edge of Margaret Atwood.

‘The Garden is both a horror story and a meditation on love at the end of the world. It’s a testament to Newman’s extraordinary gifts that its creeping dread never overwhelms its tenderness.’ Emerald Fennell, Oscar-winning director of PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN and SALTBURN

In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. For as long as they can remember, Evelyn and Lily have only had each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know.

Each day is spent in languid service to their home- tending the bees, planting the crops, and dutifully following the instructions of the almanac written by their mother. So, when a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the centre of this new Eden, the reality of their existence is irrevocably shattered. Who is he? And where did he come from?

About the Author: Nick Newman is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed children’s author Nicholas Bowling. He has written four novels for young readers including In the Shadow of Heroes (shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award) and The Undying of Obedience Wellrest (Financial Times Best YA Books of 2023, Guardian Children’s Roundup December 2023). He works as a bookseller at Daunt Books.

30 Jan 2025
 

The Garden by Nick Newman ISBN 9781529923940