IN A BLUE VELVET DRESS

by Catherine Sefton ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 30, 1973

The bookless house at 3 Mole Street seems to promise a dull holiday for avid reader Jane Reid who's been left behind while her parents cross the Irish Sea for a vacation in Scotland. But an obliging girl ghost thoughtfully provides Jane with new reading material every night -- bound volumes of the Girl's Own Paper, E. Nesbit's Five Children and It, and other favorites of a bygone generation. Jane eventually discovers that the ghost is actually Mary Quinton, a fellow bookworm who pined away and died in the very same house after being orphaned at age 13, but Mary evaporates after the return of Jane's father with a suitcase full of Jane's own books. Slight, wistfully sentimental bedtime reading for girls like Jane who won't demand more than a shade of a story.

Pub Date: May 30, 1973

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper & Row

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1973

Categories: FICTION