![]() ![]() ![]() After studying history at Oxford University, Lively became particularly interested in exploring the past in the present. ![]() However, it wasn’t until she had her own children that she considered becoming an author. Growing up as an only child in Egypt during World War II, Penelope Lively (1933 - ) spent a lot of time alone, making up stories. The arrival of the ghost brings humour and some very funny situations but also a poignant sense of the passing of time and of changes over time to people and to places. It is the ghost of an ancient sorcerer, Thomas Kempe, who is determined to make James his apprentice.Ī gentle ghost story from a great storyteller set in Oxfordshire. But it is not James who is causing all the mischief. But when James and his family move in, strange things start to happen and James gets the blame. No one notices when the builders smash a small glass bottle in an old cottage in Ledsham, Oxfordshire. ![]()
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