The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt, Chelsea Iversen
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt, Chelsea Iversen
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The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt

Author: Chelsea Iversen

Narrator: Anna Burnett

Unabridged: 10 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/03/2024


Synopsis

True magic is found among the bluebells and brambles

Harriet Hunt is completely alone. Her father disappeared months ago, leaving her to wander the halls of Sunnyside house, dwelling on a past she’d rather keep buried. She doesn’t often venture beyond her front gate, instead relishing the feel of dirt under her fingernails and soft moss beneath her feet.
Consequently, she’s been deemed a little too peculiar for popular Victorian society. This solitary life suits her fine though—because outside, magic awaits.

Harriet’s garden is special. It’s a wild place full of twisting ivy, vibrant plums, and a quiet power that buzzes like bees. Caring for this place—and keeping it from running rampant through the streets of her London suburb—is Harriet’s purpose.

But a woman alone in the world is vulnerable. Soon, a sinister plot involving her father’s disappearance begins to take shape, with Harriet herself at its center.

Everything she holds dear—from the thorny roses she tends to her very freedom—is at stake. To save herself, Harriet will have to unearth her past, discover the secrets of her garden, and finally embrace the wild magic inside her.

“Fans of Rowenna Miller and Rena Rossner will particularly enjoy this coming-of-age tale in which the magic that surrounds Harriet Hunt provides both her greatest vulnerability and her greatest strength.”—Greer Macallister, author of The Magician’s Lie and The Thirteenth Husband

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karren on September 24, 2024

Harriet Hunt has a green thumb and she loves the plants growing in her rambling garden at Sunnyside House and she’s had more time to devote to it since her father Clement left. Harriet didn’t have a good relationship with her dad and he’s a bully, he did mention visiting a relative and she hasn’t mi......more

Goodreads review by Kate on December 01, 2024

1 star for me for finishing it. 1 star for the narrator who did an excellent job. I'm afraid this really wasn't for me. The first half of the book could have been condensed into a couple of chapters following, as it does, Harriet's complete lack of faith in herself. There was so much procrastination t......more

Goodreads review by emily *:・゚✧*:・゚ on December 04, 2024

Harriet Hunt has always been known as an odd child- a spectacle of everyone around her. After a tragic accident as a small child she looses her mother and is left to be with her neglectful father. With no love she is forced to be alone with her magical garden and as she grows she accepts the lonelin......more

Goodreads review by Holden on October 09, 2024

The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt reminds me so much of Cinderella, and not the Disney version. With supernatural aspects, grounded magic, dark abuses, and keeping to an inner strength this book hones into it all. There’s a lot I love about this book from the themes and the green witch aspects and......more

Goodreads review by Mary on April 04, 2025

Oh, my heart. The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt hit me a lot harder than Chelsea Iversen's debut did though the brutality our FMCs see in both is unmatched. My heart ached for our naïve Harriet and all I wanted for her was happiness and no more bad men. There is a long string of bad decisions thro......more