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Jassy

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Through out this book you see different sides of a young girl named Jassy. Each section of the book is told by a different Narrator. From a young boy obsessed with a old house who begins to find a strange interest with the mysterious young girl, to Elizabeth Twysdale running a school for young girls who begins to hate Jassy for the favortism that is shown to her by Elizabeth's infatuation. Jassy touches peoples lives, for better or for worse in a strange tale about a strange girl.

This is a good book. It starts off by being narrated by a young boy. He is in love with a house his family once owned. A young girl, Jassy, moves in near him and he eventually becomes friends with her. Throughout the book, the narrator changes until you see all different sides of the girl. It's about her life on a farm and at a boarding school. She is very different from other girls, but succeeds by trying hard and making people happy. Throughout the book, there are a lot of underlying themes like unspoken love, fatherly neglect, the problems of gambling, and bitterness/jealous toward others. It think this is a very good book because of the fluent way it's written, the indepth characters and the way the narration brings out of the facets of Jassy.

Norah Lofts enjoys writing novels about Bury St. Edmonds in historical times. Jassy is another of these novels which focusses on a very special young lady who is very astute, but gets manipulated by the people she loves most. If you are a reader of Ms. Lofts' novels you will enjoy the way she mentions characters who have been major players in some of her other novels in "Jassy." This is a great read which you should follow up with "Nethergate" by the same author.