The Girl in the Garden

The Namesake meets The Secret Garden in this enchanting debut novel that is a dark, grown-up fairytale.

The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a terrifying secret.

Author: Kamala Nair
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 06/12/2012
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780446572699

About the Author
Kamala Nair was born in London and grew up in the United States. A graduate of Wellesley College, she studied literature at Oxford University and received an M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin in 2005. She currently lives in New York City, where she has worked at Elle Decor.