Louise Lawrence 1975
A beautiful ghost story about a girl named Anna moving with her family to an old stone house in the English countryside. While navigating her relationship with her older brother and sister and trying to find her way in a new school, she grows lonelier and lonelier. Then she meets the ghost of a young man- a Romantic poet from centuries ago whose own tragic history is tied to Anna's house. Filled with teenage angst and longing, Anna begins to lose herself in her mysterious bond with the young man.
Anna shivered and crawled behind the sofa. The metal radiator was warm. She clung to it in the small dark space breathing in the dry heat. She didn't want to be anymore. She wanted to stay a nothing, warm and hidden, protected. She wanted to stay for the rest of her life in this warm, dark, sheltered corner where no one would come. She wanted never to be herself again but stay nonexistent and forgotten.
This is a well written YA book that captures a dreamy teen girl's emotions (and I was that dreamy teenager!) within a haunting mystical sort of story.
His was the same world, the Wyndcliffe under the same sky. But now Anna looked on it with unclouded eyes. The Wyndcliffe was only a small part of something bigger. She gazed on strange and distant horizons, brilliant and indescribable, where there were colors she had never seen before. John's world. She drifted through its clearness, its misted depths, its shadows, colors, sounds and movements. It was a dream landscape, a magic place, and this little piece of it belonged to them, the Wyndcliffe, windswept, sunstruck and beautiful. Its intensity touched her with a delight that was almost pain.
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