Lucy M Boston Books in Order

Sent to his great-grandmother's ancient house for Christmas, Tolly expects a lonely holiday. Instead he finds Green Knowe alive with family stories, ghostly children from the past, and a deep sense that he belongs there.

At the ancient Yew Hall, a married couple and the husband's twin brother unsettle the life of the house's owner and narrator. Desire, jealousy, and the pull of the past build toward a quiet but painful tragedy.

Back at Green Knowe for Easter, Tolly hears more family stories from Mrs Oldknow, this time about blind Susan and the boy Jacob. As talk turns to lost jewels and hidden treasure, the house keeps giving up secrets.

While Green Knowe is rented for the summer, Ida, Oskar, and Ping explore its flooded waterways by canoe. Their holiday turns dreamlike as the river yields strange creatures, old ceremonies, and a world half seen.

Ping returns to Green Knowe after seeing a great gorilla in a London zoo. When the animal escapes and finds refuge near the house, Ping meets a stranger as lonely and displaced as he is.

Tolly and Ping are back at Green Knowe, but this time the house faces a darker threat. Old stories of a necromancer and a visitor hunting his papers bring the battle between good and evil uncomfortably close.

Joseph is given the run of a grand old garden and discovers a tiny door in a yew castle. Shrunk to fit inside, he finds another boy and a whole afternoon of make-believe adventure.

On a seaside holiday, brothers Toby and Joe find a smooth sea egg and leave it in a hidden pool, hoping for magic. When it hatches into a triton boy, their days fill with wonder and trouble.

Twin sisters discover a tiny house in the orchard, then return to find it larger each day and home to new small visitors. It is a gentle, playful fantasy built from close observation and delight in little things.

Set in the time of James I, this brief play traps a country household in fear, accusation, and witch-hunting. Boston uses the old pattern of the witchfinder story to show how quickly panic can turn cruel.

Libby spends a wet summer week with Julia, an artist who lives by a river. A green glass bead, floodwater, and old stories about nymphs blur the line between what Libby sees and what she only half understands.

Boston tells how she found, restored, and learned to live inside the ancient manor that inspired Green Knowe. It is a house memoir, but also a book about work, memory, gardening, and making a place your own.

Tom slips into an old riverside house and finds carved faces and guardian figures that draw him into a chain of strange journeys. The adventure is brief, eerie, and full of warnings about curiosity, greed, and what belongs to the past.

While helping his father build a wall, Rob finds a stone with a perfect fossil snake inside. Warmth and music seem to wake it, and soon he has a secret creature growing larger than he can manage.

In the days when Green Knowe is new, Roger d'Aulneaux finds two ancient stone seats that open a path through time. Through them he meets children from the house's future and sees how the place will endure.

Boston looks back on a strict Lancashire childhood, the pull of independence, and her service as a nurse during the First World War. The memoir is candid, sharp-eyed, and full of the feelings that later fed her fiction.

This volume brings together Perverse And Foolish and Memory In A House, linking Boston's early life to the years when she restored the manor that inspired Green Knowe. It is the fullest single place to see her story whole.

A small collection of ghostly and uncanny tales, from haunted bells and sinister objects to a play about witch-hunting. It shows the darker edge of Boston's imagination, quiet on the surface and unsettling underneath.