Tom's Midnight Garden
core novel 1958 Tom's Midnight Garden
Record
| First published | 1958 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.05 (28,271 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 240 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780192720078 |
Where it sits
- Universe: Tom's Midnight Garden
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Philippa Pearce
Awards (verified)
- Carnegie Medal for Writing, 1958: won; Confirmed directly via the CILIP/Yoto Carnegie Medal's own official winners archive (carnegies.co.uk), which lists "1958 Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden, OUP".
Notes
- A quarantined boy, Tom, discovers that at midnight the hall clock strikes an impossible thirteen and the back door opens onto a magnificent Victorian garden that no longer exists by day; there he befriends Hatty, a lonely girl, and the two slip across decades together until Tom learns the elderly landlady upstairs is Hatty, grown old.
Sources
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