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Title: Ghostly nostalgia
Review: Today it seems it's vampire romance. Back in the '70s it was ghosts, and I particularly remember a televison movieSandcastlesin which a young woman (Bonnie Bedelia) falls in with a young man, unaware he's a ghost. And the charming TV series,The Ghost and Mrs Muir(based on a 1945 novel).In this YA novel, a British teenager with budding artistic talent gets the opportunity to spend a summer studying with a famous artist at his home in the country. His ride from the train station doesn't show up, but he's helped out by a cute but mysterious girl. Wanna guess what happens next?Without giving the plot away, I still find the ending poignant but upbeat, and have a far better understanding of the adults in the village than I did back then. I think it's still an excellent young adult novel.Oh, and forget the cover blurb.Audrey Roseis more-or-less a horror story; The Otherwise Girl neither attempts nor attains horror.
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