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    "description": "At the request of his father, New York City novelist Andrew Thale tackles an odd assignment\u2014to check out an old family property in Massachusetts, neglected since Aunt Harriet Thale\u2019s death years ago. But far from being deserted, Thale\u2019s Folly, as Andrew discovers, is fully inhabited\u2014by a quartet of charming squatters, former \u201cguests\u201d of kindhearted Harriet. There is elegant Miss L\u2019Hommedieu, Gussie the witch, Leo the bibliophile, and beautiful Tarragon, who is unlike any girl Andrew has ever met in Manhattan.\n\nAndrew is entranced by these unworldly creatures and their simple life. Yet all is not well in Thale\u2019s Folly. A thief breaks into the farmhouse, an old friend of the \u201cfamily\u201d disappears, and Andrew and Tarragon are drawn into mysteries they cannot fathom. . . .",
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