The Coochie Diaries
Then, on the eighth day, she found the walled garden.
A small, almost hidden door in a vast, red-brick wall, its latch rusted shut. It took her an hour of prying with a crowbar to break through the corrosion. The door swung inward with a shriek of metal, and Imogen stepped into another world.
While the rest of the estate was a battle between design and wilderness, here, time had been kinder. It was a sunken garden, protected by the high walls. A central, circular lawn was overgrown but discernible. Around it, the ghosts of ordered beds slept under blankets of self-seeded poppies and forget-me-nots. And in the very center, on a stone plinth, stood a statue of a woman, her features smoothed by
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