The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart 1962 HC/DJ The Ivy Tree Mary Stewart New York: M.S. Mill Co. and William Morrow and Co., 1962 Second printing Copyright 1961 320 pages The binding is in good condition, the pages are clean but lightly tanned. The cover shows light wear. The jacket is rubbed, has tears at the spine bottom and some edge wear. Good in acceptable dust-jacket. Hardcover. Mary Grey had come from Canada to the land of her forebears: Northumberland, where Hadrian built his wall nearly 2000 years ago. As she leaned against the sunwarmed stones, savoring the ordered, spare beauty of England's northern fells, the silence was shattered by a single name hurled, as it were, like an epithet: "Annabel!" And there stood one of the angriest, most threatening young men Mary had ever seen. His name was Connor Winslow, and from his spate of words Mary discovered that he thought she was his cousin--a girl supposedly dead these past eight years. Alive, she would be heiress to an inheritance Con determined to have for himself. Thus begins the story of an impersonation fraught with the perils of treading present depths without the buoyancy of an innocent past. To it, Mrs. Stewart brings her remarkable ability to create atmosphere be it joyous, brooding, or terrifying. (#0000315)