List Of Colin & The Secret Garden References. Author of the things that we lost (merky) wandering souls (4th estate) by cecile pin is the book i’ve recommended most this year, so i’ll definitely be wrapping up a copy or two. He was born in the same year in which mary was born and the secret garden locked shut.

Colin experiences some of the same while also insisting that visual evidence of his illness should be kept secret from the misselthwaite staff; Unable to walk when we meet him, he discovers in the garden that he can stand. Web mary changes drastically over the course of the secret garden: