So, if you like ghosts, time travel, the turn of the century, and dolls, you will enjoy this book no matter your age. It's also a book for the doll book collector. The "ghost" part is secondary to these themes. Probably the intended age is one reason, but I think, too, that this is more of a ghost-timeslip book in the tradition of Philippa Pearce's "Tom's Midnight Garden." It's about loss and discovery, reconciliation, making peace with the past. I'm a huge ghost story fan, but this one, while being a ghost tale, certainly, also falls into the timeslip-time travel genre and isn't meant to be terribly spooky. I liked this one so much, I've since gone on to read all of her supernatural books and one or two of her reality-based books.
This was the first book I'd read by Mary Downing Hahn, quite a few years ago.
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