At first glance, The Forever Garden is a simple story of the friendship between a girl and her neighbour. Honey lovingly tends her garden and shares the fruits of her labour with young Laurel, until one day Honey moves away, leaving the garden for her home’s new occupants and leaving Laurel with the knowledge to continue Honey’s legacy. The story is simultaneously gentle and powerful, and this combination is echoed in the illustrations of pastoral garden scenes punctuated by splashes of bright colour.
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