The Changeling Garden

by Winifred Elze

Book Overview

When Annie, Mark and their five-year-old son, David, move into an old Victorian house surrounded by a jumble of gardens, they are not prepared for the terror that awaits them. Strange things are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312134495
• ISBN13: 9780312134495
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Ferngully + Agatha Christie = Entertaining Read

This is one of the most physically beautiful books that I own. Everything about it is green - the pages are trimmed with it and even the text is green! The story was like a drawn out fairy tale with an overly hammered in message at the end- all in all making it Agatha Christie mated with _Ferngully_ - still it was an entertaining read. She does have a second book, but unless it is as physically beautiful as this one, I am not terribly interested.

I loved the originality of REALLY communicating with plants!

As a first novel, I throughly enjoyed this imaginative book. Ms Elze opened a world of conjecture I had never contemplated and fleshed it out wonderfully. The main characters are well developed and should be used in future novels. They could grow along with Ms Elze's skills. I would love to read more of her work.

Excellent!

At first, I was hesitant to read this book. I thought the plot sounded stupid. Out of boredom I finally read it and I thought it was great! Some scenes could have been more developed and scarier and there was absolutely no suspence as to who the murderer was. I kept reading because it was very entertaining and I think it is one of those books where you can't think about too much and try to make sense of it. I loved the idea of a talking garden. I would reccomend this book to anyone who wants an entertaining, easy to read story.

Loved it!

If you like to get lost in a fantasy world, then you will love this book. I loved the concept of a magical garden. At first I was a little concerned about the large amount of dialog in the novel but that turned out to be one of its strengths. The story was obviously far fetched but that did not matter. I just let my inmagination run wild and became so involved in the story that I felt I was apart of the landscape. The writer allowed me to visualize the setting with vivid detail. Not realistic, but a lot of fun! Magical!