These stories all eventually come true, after a fashion. Lynn's and Polly's alter egos, respectively. Together, the two come up with stories about a hero named Tan Coul and his assistant Hero, who are Mr. Tom sends her books and letters with stories in them, many of which tie into the general theme of his predicament. Over the following years Tom and Polly continue a friendship largely through correspondence, with occasional visits. He then takes her back to her grandmother's house, where she is living. He takes her back inside to help him select six pictures from a large pile, his share of the estate of the deceased one of them is a photograph called "Fire and Hemlock" (hence the name of the novel), which he gave to her. There, she was approached by a man named Thomas Lynn who took her back outside and kept her company. As she clears out her old bedroom, Polly discovers that below her memories, in which she led an entirely normal and unremarkable life, there is a second set of memories, which are rather unusual.Īs Polly thinks back to this "second set" of memories, the point where they seem to diverge is when she stumbled into a funeral in an old mansion, Hunsdon House, when she was ten and playing with her best friend, Nina.
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