The Secret at Pheasant Cottage

"But what a lot of time we waste, Lucy, when we won't forgive. I never had much book learning and your Granny could say it a lot better than I could, but it seems to me that every hour when we won't love and forgive, is an hour of life wasted."
This is very moving.
Lucy lives with her Grandparents although she doesn't know why. She fends off the comments from her school friends but in the process becomes curious. Where are her parents? Where did she come from? What of the fading memory of a tall man playing games with her when she was very young. Gradually, she pieces her past together, but is it too late for things to be made right, for relationships to be restored? What about the most important friendship of all?