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I selected this novel because I heard it was a really good book, and my sister read it and said it was scary. I like scary books so I decided to read it. The information I needed to know before reading the book was what it was mainly about so i had an idea of what it was about. Before the book began an unknown narrator was talking about a time on Christmas Eve when a bunch of people got together to tell ghost stories. One man named Douglas began talking about a story with two children named Miles and Flora who had seen ghosts. He also talked about a governess who had written the story of the events that took place. Douglas thought that he was in love with the governess and she was in love with him, but they never talked about it. The governess accepted the position after her boss tells her that she can't talk to him at all or ask him any questions. The story begins by the governess starting her new job in Bly and meeting Flora, she was the youngest child, and the maid Mrs. Grose. While talking to Mrs. Grose, she mentions that Miles, Floras brother, won't be arriving home until later that week. The next day the governess recieves a letter from her boss and inside it was another letter saying that Miles has been exspelled from school. She asked Mrs. Grose about Miles being a bad kid and she says only on occasions and they were both confused on why he was exspelled. She later asks about whatever happened to the other governess and Mrs. Grose didn't want to talk about it. The governess is telling the story. The setting is in Bly, England in a small isolated, country home. It could be taking place anywhere because it doesn't really matter where it happens at. The first problem faced by the governess was when she started to see and hear strange things, like her seeing a man staring at her from the tower at the top of the house who was supposedly their valet who had died. I wanna keep reading this because i want to know what is going to happen with the new governess and why she is seeing the ghosts.