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In the Remixed Classics series authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet white and male canon This queer YA reimagining of The Secret Garden subverts the cishet and white status quo of the original in a tale of family secrets wonderful and horrifying

Mary Lennox didnt think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle shes never met

At first the impassive calculating girl believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto cold isolating and anything but cheerful where staff is treated as staff and never like family But as she slowly allows her heart to open like the first blooms of spring Mary comes to find that this strange place and its strange peoplemost of whom are Indigenousmay be what she can finally call home

Then one night Mary discovers Olive her cousin who has been hidden away in an attic room for years due to a nervous condition The girls become fast friends and Mary wonders why this bighearted girl is being kept out of sight and fed medicine that only makes her feel sicker When Olives domineering stepmother returns to the manor it soon becomes clear that something sinister is going on

With the help of a charming intoxicatingly vivacious Metis girl named Sophie Mary begins digging further into family secrets both wonderful and horrifying to figure out how to free Olive And some of the answers may lie within the walls of a hidden overgrown and longforgotten garden the girls stumble upon while wandering the wilds

The Remixed Classics Series
A Clash of Steel A Treasure Island Remix by CB Lee
So Many Beginnings A Little Women Remix by Bethany C Morrow
Travelers Along the Way A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi
What Souls Are Made Of A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri
SelfMade Boys A Great Gatsby Remix by AnnaMarie McLemore
My Dear Henry A Jekyll amp Hyde Remix by Kalynn Bayron
Teach the Torches to Burn A Romeo amp Juliet Remix by Caleb Roehrig
Into the Bright Open A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline
Most Ardently A Pride amp Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa

A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel amp Friends