Tom's Midnight Garden

Author: (English) Philippa Pearce / Ma Ainong
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: One night, the antique clock downstairs suddenly struck thirteen times. Strange things happened—the backyard, usually filled with trash bins, transformed into a mysterious summer garden. In this mysterious garden, Tom had no footprints or shadows, and could pass through walls. He could see others, but they couldn’t see him. Only Heidi, the orphaned little girl, could see him, though she thought he was a ghost. Strange things always happened here—time moved forward and backward, seasons shifted between winter and summer, and Heidi grew and shrank unpredictably. What puzzled him was that no matter how long he wandered in the garden, when he returned to his bed, only a few minutes had passed since he left. Here, time seemed to move especially swiftly, Heidi’s growth was unusually rapid, and Tom’s image grew increasingly blurry. Could he retain this beautiful and enchanting world? He had to find a way to experience time in both worlds simultaneously.