LONELY Clarice finds a girl, a refugee from a boarding school, in her garden and hides her in her bedroom cupboard.
The two girls become entranced with each other but lively, curly-haired Olga won't keep quiet or still. Her strange antics make the household staff think that they have seen a ghost. How long before their secret is discovered?
Written in 1872 this is a charming, funny period piece with two appealing heroines. It is enhanced by magical illustrations, woodcuts that are little masterpieces of light and dark.
Frances Perkins
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