![]() ![]() The settings of this book are not exotic, unlike some of Stewart’s other books, but it speaks of the variation in landscape culminating in the beauty of the house Thornyhold and the surrounding Wiltshire countryside. This is a lovely book, written in Gilly’s voice, explaining her sadness but also her joys of discovery. ![]() ![]() Her home is the same, full of secrets and opportunities, but also attracting the interest of others. Magical, and mystical, she is a woman who makes a difference with her knowledge of the world and especially plants. A lonely child growing up in a bleak Vicarage and unfriendly schools, her childhood is transformed by the visits of her mother’s cousin, also called Geillis. “I suppose that my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to.” So begins this clever, almost mystical book which tells the story of Gilly, or Geillis, a young woman who discovers that life is not always straightforward. ![]()
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