A House Like a Lotus (by Madeleine L'Engle)

I have been enjoying reading Madeleine L’Engle’s teenage fiction books, many of which I had not previously read. I’ve almost reached the end; the chronology is rather complicated as she wrote three separate series, but some of the characters overlap. ‘A House like a Lotus’ is third in the O’Keefe series. It features Polly, who was also a main character in ‘The Arm of the Starfish’ and ‘Dragons in the Water’.

Both the earlier O’Keefe novels were somewhat suspenseful adventure stories, but it...