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The Empty House
Two young girls share a friendship and a secret. The friendship means the end of loneliness for Clare, an only child, when she meets the Fowler family. The secret, an empty and neglected old house, means excitement and pleasure until it gradually turns to something almost too big for the girls to cope with . A stranger in their secret den was something they had not bargained for--especially when the young man turns out to be in serious trouble. Clare and Juliet set out to help, meeting every emergency as it comes with grim determination.
182 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1965
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April 10, 2021
I entered the text from the jacket flap just now (adding only that the secret is an empty old house), and it's pretty accurate, except that it doesn't say how nice it is to clean up the kitchen of the old house to make it their den (Juliet takes the lead with this part) and to work in the garden (Clare's interested in horticulture as a possible future career. Like the two girls I was dismayed when this peaceful domestic retreat was disturbed by a sullen young man, and their interfering efforts to make everything ok were of less interest to me than the first half of the book, partly because disadvantaged urban youth of the UK in the 1960s is not really a favorite topic of mine to read about....Not a great book, and I'm not sure if I'll ever want to re-read it, but I read it in a single absorbed sitting and don't object to having bought it...
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