The Chalk Garden

A grandmother desperate to keep her granddaughter, and a mother desperate to have her daughter back; the butler who runs the house from his sickbed through the butler-in-training, a former convict; a child who deceitfully runs her world; and a governess with a dark past trying to save them all — an intriguing cast of characters, all living to cover or dig up their pasts, create a whimsical mystery, comical interchanges, and lives gleaning lessons from The Chalk Garden.