Thirteen season-old-new Yorker Jenny Gluckstein lives a life which is, otherwise spectacularly wonderful, at the least bearable to help you their own. She shares an apartment together with her mom, Sally, towards Higher West Top. She isn’t really common in school, however, comes with a few friends. And you will even with becoming small, that have spot, not-being graceful, and achieving no idea when or if she will actually start to have a fact, Jenny (never ever Jennifer) pulls morale out of a close bond along with her pet, who is called Mr. Pet. Up coming their mother Sally upsets everything by deciding to marry their own English boyfriend, Evan Davies. The notion of transferring to England is actually anathema to own Jenny, nonetheless it gets far worse: Evan was a soil biologist, and you may countries a job fixing Stourhead Farm from inside the Dorset – Thomas Sturdy nation. Jenny has some changes and also make, and you will means they are as we you’ll assume a sensible and you may quite difficult teen doing: unwillingly. Then Mister Pet, in the end freed after his half dozen-month quarantine as a several-footed immigrant, initiate staying business with an enchanting cigarette-gray Persian whom has been a beneficial ghost (which could describe a few of the smoky quality). Continue reading
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