Celia's House is a delightful 1920s partial retelling of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Full of joy and laughter, woven with sadness and tears, it is one of D.E. Stevenson's best works. The Dunne family is unforgettable and Dunnian, Celia's house, is a dream. (Only second to Pemberley in my list of bookish places I wish I could visit.) Set in the Scottish countryside and complete with a remarkable cast of characters, Celia's House is magnificent.

Content: some sort of ghost is seen multiple times by multiple people, which is unexplained; there's kissing (undescribed); one of the side characters is mentioned to have had an affair. There's no violence, only a little romance, and minimal bad language, very common to the time period.

Celia's House is pretty clean. I'd suggest this to readers 12+.

Highly recommended to fans of Mansfield Park and L.M. Montgomery's novels, especially The Blue Castle and her Emily of New Moon series. If you've read anything else by D.E. Stevenson, this one won't disappoint.