6/24/2023 0 Comments The humming room by ellen potter![]() ![]() The author has created a fresh tale with a strong-willed heroine. Potter intentionally evokes the earlier work, capturing its bittersweet emotions and fey qualities. The characters and events are nearly exact counterparts to those found in the classic The Secret Garden. There is also a mysterious, long-neglected garden that calls to her. A newly discovered cousin screams and cries and rarely leaves his room. Her uncle stays away for months at a time. The local inhabitants are earthy and superstitious and seem to hark back to an earlier time. When her drug-dealing parents are killed, she is sent to live with an uncle on an isolated island-Cough Rock-in the St. She spends much of her time hiding in cavelike spaces, with her ear to the ground listening intensely to the movements within the Earth. ![]() ![]() Roo’s childhood has been traumatic she is ill-fed, ill-clothed and too small for her age. A young orphan finds herself in a remote mansion that hides many secrets. ![]()
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