Thirteen seasons-old-new Yorker Jenny Gluckstein lives a lives that’s, otherwise spectacularly great, at the very least tolerable in order to their particular. She shares a condo together with her mom, Sally, toward Top Western Side. She isn’t well-known in school, but does have a couple of close friends. And you will even with being quick, which have spot, not being elegant, and achieving little idea when or if perhaps she’s going to ever beginning to features a figure, Jenny (never Jennifer) brings comfort out-of a near bond along with her pet, that is named Mr. Cat. Then their particular mom Sally upsets everything because of the choosing to marry her English boyfriend, Evan Davies. The very thought of transferring to England was anathema getting Jenny, nonetheless it gets worse: Evan try a soil biologist, and you may lands employment repairing Stourhead Ranch inside the Dorset – Thomas Hardy country. Jenny has some changes and then make, and you will makes them as we you will expect an intelligent and you will slightly difficult teen accomplish: hesitantly. Next Mister Cat, in the long run freed once his half dozen-month quarantine since a four-footed immigrant, starts staying providers having a charming smoking-grey Persian exactly who has been a ghost (which can identify some of the smoky high quality). And you will Jenny matches Tamsin.
Tamsin is additionally good ghost. The woman is the new child out-of Roger Willoughby, very first manager from Stourhead Ranch back in the fresh new seventeenth century. Brand new ghost Persian are her pet. The fresh new mystery up to Tamsin is the reason this woman is nonetheless there, stuck during the Stourhead 300 ages once she have to have introduced on.