A love story delicate in its perceptions of a young woman falling in love, delightful in its portrayal of the countryside, and skilled in its creation of a world of magic. Mary Stewart’s storytelling is as spell-binding as ever. 

          Inheriting Thornyhold, a house set in a deep wood, is the beginning of a fairy tale for Gilly – the magic brought fleetingly to her childhood by Cousin Geillis returns and she finds the love that finally ends her loneliness.