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Help me find Victorian/edwardian children's book

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SoftplayTaintedLove · 29/10/2021 02:21

Had a girl in it who was going to a tea party or something- but ended up going into the woods to ? look for something or someone? She was told there would be a carriage and/or a cathedral and when she got there, she was in a sort of nature version, under the cathedral she knew well. (Sort of like the Upside Down in stranger things!!) So instead of stone carved gargoyles in the ???crypt?? there were rabbits poking their heads out. And there was a door made of tree roots she possibly couldn't open? When she got in someone was there sleeping, maybe her teacher, sister , brother, mother- someone she was pleased to find or had even been looking for. Maybe someone got married. Maybe there was a giant.

Strong Edwardian clothes feel to it and possibly a vicar in it... also there was an old Gardener/God type figure man giving Mysterious Clues who said "Your tears will turn to [something or other] and your dross to gold". It confused me as I thought it was a sort of "Oooar, young missie" dialect and he meant her DRESS would turn gold. But it didn't.

The copy we had had a blue cover with very tangled intricate fairy-forest type line drawing. The book had fallen in half so I never had read the middle chunk - which could be why I'm so confused now!

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SoftplayTaintedLove · 29/10/2021 02:23

the cathedral in the real world had possibly been designed based on the one underneath...

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milkyaqua · 29/10/2021 02:38

Maybe this? I love Elizabeth Gouge's books, still remember the feel of The White Witch which I read as a small child.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/855914.The_Blue_Hills

SoftplayTaintedLove · 29/10/2021 02:41

OMG!!!!!!!! well that was a short thread! Thank you so much. It totally was that. The people with the motor car! They were the ones who fell in love I think. Gonna read it now. So excited

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TheMadGardener · 29/10/2021 02:49

Also known as "Henrietta's House" - Elizabeth Goudge.

milkyaqua · 29/10/2021 02:57

Yes, Goudge! Grin Happy reading, OP.

Namechangenumber23 · 29/10/2021 03:06

Ooh!! Thank you OP and @milkyaqua! I started reading thinking it sounded familiar. This was in my grandmother's house and remember reading it and haven't thought of it in a LONG time. Never knew it was part of a trilogy either! 😍

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