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· Tamsin is a novel by Peter S. Beagle.
· Tamsin is also a feminine version of the name Thomas. See Thomasina for
more information.
Summary The novel tells of a teenage girl named Jenny Gluckstein, a
social misfit uprooted from her life in New York City when her divorced
mother marries an Englishman. At first Jenny resents her stepfather, his
two sons, and the family's new home in an isolated manor house in Dorset.
Soon, though, Jenny discovers that the house is haunted by the spirit of
Tamsin Willoughby, a young woman who died in the house three hundred years
before.
Tamsin introduces her to the night world of boggarts, the Billy Blind, and
the Pooka, before a three-hundred-year-old ghost, Judge Jeffreys, is
finally awakened and begins to pursue her. The story ends with Judge
Jeffreys' three-hundred-year-old magic being defeated by an older magic,
that of the old lady of the elder tree. Thi
