Think you know The Secret Garden? Rosalind Sydney has written a “visceral and passionate” new version

An Edwardian tale about a locked garden in the grounds of an old manor house, and a little orphaned girl who finds happiness there; small wonder, perhaps, that Frances Hodgson Burnett’s much-loved children’s book The Secret Garden, first published in 1911, is often seen as a sentimental period piece, rather than a story with the kind of vivid relevance to 21st century life that modern storytellers often seek.