The second novels of brilliant beginners are so often disappointing. Miss Pearce's successor to Minnow has now appeared after three years, and her most enthusiastic admirer need have no fear. Here is no second and inferior Minnow, but a book entirely different in every respect except excellence. (p. 333)
[Tom's Midnight Garden] is an original treatment of a "time" theme, with a brilliant surprise ending—at least it took one reader completely by surprise.
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