Currently reading
A London Family, 1870-1900: A Trilogy
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
All the Names
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Down the Garden Path
Virtue Betray'd, Or, Anna Bullen
Year of Wonders
Swallows and Amazons
Illusion in java
i can't believe I didn't come across these books when I was a kid! I enjoy books in which a young person has an equal friendship with an older person (something you rarely see in movies or tv, where the old are often mocked) and that shines through in this somewhat eerie story about a young boy who comes to stay with a relative in a very old English manor house. If you liked the Gone-Away Lake stories by Enright or the Five Children and It by Nesbit, you will probably like this. It might be a bit scary for young kids though.