There’s an atmosphere of witchcraft and herbalism, and some very nicely done suspense turning on Mrs Trapp’s eagerness to get hold of Miss Saxon’s recipe book, and the conflict between her feelings and Gilly’s for attractive writer Christopher Dryden, William’s father. She makes friends with young William Dryden, who often used to come to Miss Saxon for help with his ferrets, and to help her harvest herbs, and who regards the younger Geillis also as another white witch or ‘wise woman’. She moves in, delighted by the house – which is out in the woods and some distance from the nearest village – though rather disturbed by her neighbour, Agnes Trapp, who seems far too interested in what Geillis Saxon may have left behind in her house. As she is contemplating having to shut up the vicarage in the mining village where she and her parents had spent many years, and consider the future, she’s given a lifeline: Cousin Geillis herself has died, but left Gilly her house, Thornyhold, in Wiltshire. Gilly is also made aware that her cousin has some “foresight”, since Geillis seems to know very accurately that things will happen and when.Īfter the death of her father (her mother was killed in a car accident before the war), and an unfinished degree, Gilly has a very uncertain future in 1948, at the age of twenty-seven. Only occasional visits from her mother’s cousin – also named Geillis – help young Gilly survive her harsh upbringing in a north-eastern mining village, and later at boarding school, with discovering the world of plants, animals and the environment. Geillis Ramsey is a sensitive child growing up in a home which, although not short of love (at least on her father’s side), is rather hard and unsympathetic, particularly to the young girl’s love of nature. OL1804648W Page_number_confidence 93.53 Pages 234 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210108160410 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 376 Scandate 20210106011148 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 4.I’d held off getting this one since I was hoping to win a copy in the Brown Paper giveaway: sadly, it was not to be, so I bought it for my Kindle. Urn:lcp:thornyhold0000unse:epub:8fd58041-7c81-4f77-9c12-3d4c8421b1dc Foldoutcount 0 Identifier thornyhold0000unse Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3sv7jb23 Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9935 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000185 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:00:55 Boxid IA40030120 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier