Last year I wrote a story for my goddaughter, Holly, who had starred as Mary Lennox in a production of ‘The Secret Garden’ based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnet. She loved the part, so for advent I wrote her a 24 part Christmas story, based on the book and with Mary at its heart. It was a huge amount of fun to write, so I thought this year I would share it.

So, if you’d like to read a longish story, one page for each day of December finishing on Christmas Eve, I’ll be publishing Winter Comes to the Secret Garden here as a fiction advent calendar – for free, no subscription or payment of any kind required. You can follow this blog for updates, and I’ll also be publishing the links on my author page over on Facebook, so if you’re not already following it, please do. And do tell anyone you think might enjoy it!

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!