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When Ophelia's father heads off to Italy for the summer to finish work on his book on the poet Ezra Pound, O - as she prefers to be called - is sent by train to stay with her Aunt Emily, who runs a second-hand bookshop back east called The Green Man, after she falls in and needs... Read Full Overview

Teenaged O - never call her Ophelia - is about to spend the summer with her aunt Emily. Emily is a poet and the owner of an antiquarian book store, The Green Man . A proud, independent woman, Emily's been made frail by a heart attack. O will be a help to her. Just how crucial... Read Full Overview