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Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.

"A strange friendship develops between a young Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from the London Zoo." --

While eagerly following each stage of the new stone manor househis father is building to replace their old wooden Saxon hall, ayoung boy, part Saxon and part Norman, becomes involved with ancient magic that carries him through time.