Thornyhold by Mary Stewart

Thornyhold

by Mary Stewart is a relaxing book you'll cherish a lot. Days ago an internet connection asked us if we loved her books. I remembered I bought online some of her books. Thornyhold, I remember, was waiting for me from a long time and I decided that I would have completed that book.

Thornyhold is an immersion in nature, magic, new friends, neighbors, distant relationships, good feelings, love, old houses and...pigeons.

Thornyhold is the house of beloved Cousin Geillis. The cousin of Gilly,  the protagonist, had the reputation of being a witch. 

A witch practicing white witchery, so she was in grade of being helpful when people or animals in need.

Gilly met rarely her cousin but everytime she did, in crucial moments of her existence, the meetings marked her profoundly.

Immediately after her father's departure, Gilly received a pleasant news: she had inherited the house of cousin Geillis.

It was an old house immersed in the powerful and enchanting british countryside once the house of a prestigious witch; after all not too distant from Stonehege, the house conquers immediately Gilly although, as you will see, some people in particular Jessamy and his mother Mrs. Trapp will induce her at a sort of diffidence and sunspect. For real reasons.

A person Gilly finds adorable because very intelligent and pleasant is William the son of a writer called Christopher John and big fan of her cousin Geillis and her medicaments good for people and animals.

Gilly met the writer in a situation pretty singular: she was setting free a sheep but substantially was love at first sight!

A positive tale, told in first person, richly descriptive, that portrays the british countryside during the last world war with a light, fresh, romantic, touch.

Highly recommended.

Anna Maria Polidori