In particular, Jenny befriends Tamsin Willoughby, the lovely daughter of the farm’s founder. Jenny’s biggest secret has to do with ghosts - 300-year-old ghosts left over from the aftermath of the Monmouth Rebellion and the Bloody Assizes. But the biggest distraction of all is the night life in and around the house, ranging from a boggart, a billy-blind, and giggling voices under the bathtub, to things even greater and, in some cases, more sinister, that live in the fields and the woods. She has to find her place at a new school like none she has attended before she forms instant relationships with her stepbrothers she gets a new best friend and she is drafted into the workforce of an old farm that is trying to become new again. Even as unsympathetic as Jenny is, it is hard not to sympathize with her plight, particularly when the sudden new family gets its first look at their new home: a run-down old manor house on a ruined Dorset farm.īut soon, Jenny has too many things to do to spare time for being nasty. Almost the least pleasant thing about her is the fight she puts up when her divorced mother announces she is getting remarried and moving to England to live with Evan and his two boys, and taking Jenny with her.
In fact, the early chapters of her first-person account show her to be somewhere between pitiful and repulsive. Jenny Gluckstein of New York City does not seem, at first, to be a very likely heroine.
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