Holiday Summer

by Decie Merwin

Mary Lee Wade from Virginia, U.S.A., didn’t altogether relish the prospect of spending April in the heart of the English countryside. London had been fun, but what on earth would they do on a farm? The word conjured up pictures of rain, mud - and boredom, but when she saw Somerhaze Farm and the Randall family, her doubts began to disappear.
Gillian and Jeffrey Randall - and their house, their family and their horses - were all so much fun that even Mary Lee was full of joy when the Wade family decided to stay for the whole summer. Learning to ride in the beautiful Somerset countryside, the appearance of the Randall family ghost, the older sophisticated Oxford student who was Gillian’s cousin, all contributed to give Mary Lee the holiday of her life.
Decie Merwin has written a happy book full of humour and charm, and British girls will enjoy seeing themselves and their country through the eyes of an American teenager.
(Dustwrapper blurb from Seagull 1960 edition)

My edition: Seagull library 1960 with dustwrapper
Not known in a Seagull pictorial boards edition

Advertised in a Children’s Press dustwrapper edition on the back of ‘Kit and the Mystery Man’ by Mollie Chappell 1966 (and elsewhere)
Advertised in a Children’s Press laminated edition on the back of ‘The Diary of a Spycatcher’ by Lomax Guthrie 1968 (and elsewhere)

Seagull Library dustwrapper 1960