What is the mood or atmosphere of the story called Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillips Pearce .

Beautifully written, the novel offers a variety of moods, with moments of poignancy, flashes of humor, instances of danger, and touches of joy and disappointment. The narrative is suspenseful, the characters are lifelike, and the themes are thought-provoking. The novel captures at once the sense of fixed childhood memories and of the inevitable transformations of growth.