A review by situationnormal
The Doll in the Garden by Mary Downing Hahn

4.0

I read this book as a child and have remembered loving it (and all haunted doll books) for years. My mom even says she remembers it scaring me to death as a kid. Re-reading it as an adult, though, it's mostly really sad. The circumstances surrounding the doll are super sad but the mother/daughter dynamic and their grief over Ashley's father is even sadder. Hahn is so good at making you care deeply about characters in 100 pages or so.