When young Tom is sent to live in a flat with his aunt and uncle, all he longs for is a
garden to play in; when he finds it during midnight wanderings, it takes him a few nights to
realize that the garden and his playmate Hattie are from the previous century.
Town gardens are small, as a rule, and the Longs’ garden was no exception to the rule;
there was a vegetable plot and a grass plot and one flower-bed and a rough patch by the
back fence.
DEBUT
Tom’s Midnight Garden (Oxford University Press, 1958).
VARIANTS
Debut. Tom’s Midnight Garden (Oxford University Press, 1958).
Town gardens are small, as a rule, and the Longs’ garden was no exception to the rule;
there was a vegetable plot and a grass plot and one flower-bed and a rough patch by the
back fence.
1 English variant