The Sherwood Ring
Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family’s ancestral estate. Her eccentric uncle Enos drives away her only new acquaintance, Pat, a handsome British scholar, then leaves Peggy to fend for herself. But she is not alone. The house is full of...
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Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family’s ancestral estate. Her eccentric uncle Enos drives away her only new acquaintance, Pat, a handsome British scholar, then leaves Peggy to fend for herself. But she is not alone. The house is full of mysteriesand ghosts. Soon Peggy becomes involved with the spirits of her own Colonial ancestors and witnesses the unfolding of a centuries-old romance against a backdrop of spies and intrigue and of battles plotted and foiled. History has never been so excitingespecially because the ghosts are leading Peggy to a romance of her own!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780618150748 (0618150749)
Publish date: October 29th 2001
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Pope’s other book. I find it delightful and enjoy the way the past and present interweave. It’s more lighthearted than The Perilous Gard, but I also don’t find it has quite the commanding depth that TPG does. Still, it makes me wish, again, that Pope had written more than two books.
For years I was convinced I had read this book. Then I saw the plot description of an orphaned girl sent to live with her eccentric uncle -- not what I was remembering at all! Eventually I tracked down a copy and began to read it. Soon I began to suspect that I had indeed read it before, and two thi...
A good read, with interesting characters and a swiftly moving story. My complaint is that the historical portions were of far more interest and immediacy than the 'present' time or the characters we were introduced to in that period. They all fell pretty flat and I found myself wishing it had been a...
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