Meanwhile, an escaped convict has the countryside in an uproar. One foggy day, Brat finds a sick, exhausted stranger in the barn, who repeats to her words inscribed in Swallow's prayerbook: ""Knock on the door and it shall be opened to you."" On this scanty evidence, the children swiftly identify the stranger as Jesus and form a Secret Society among themselves to hide and worship him. Abandoned by their mother, 10-year-old narrator Brambling (nicknamed Brat), 12-year-old Swallow and seven-year-old Merlin (known as Poor Baby) live on a farm in Sussex with their busy father and embarrassingly ""corny"" grandmother but are happily left to their own devices most of the time. The first American edition of the well-known 1957 British novel is timed to coincide with the June opening of a Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber musical on Broadway.
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