The Winter Garden av Alexandra Bell

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<p><b><i>_____________________</i></b><br><b>Welcome to the Winter Garden. Open only at 13 o''clock.</b><br><br><i>You are invited to enter an unusual competition.</i><br><br><i>I am looking for the most magical, spectacular, remarkable pleasure garden this world has to offer.</i><br><br>On the night her mother dies, 8-year-old Beatrice receives an invitation to the mysterious Winter Garden. A place of wonder and magic, filled with all manner of strange and spectacular flora and fauna, the garden is her solace every night for seven days. But when the garden disappears, and no one believes her story, Beatrice is left to wonder if it were truly real.<br><br>Eighteen years later, on the eve of her wedding to a man her late father approved of but she does not love, Beatrice makes the decision to throw off the expectations of Victorian English society and search for the garden. But when both she and her closest friend, Rosa, receive invitations to compete to create spectacular pleasure gard