When Tom is sent to stay at his aunt & uncle's house for the summer he resigns himself to endless weeks of boredom As he lies awake in his bed he hears the grandfather clock downstairs strike eleven twelve thirteen Thirteen! Tom races down the stairs & out the back door into a garden everyone told him wasn't there In this enchanted thirteenth hour the garden comes alive
- but Tom is never sure whether the children he meets there are real or ghosts This entrancing & magical story is one of the best-loved children's books ever written