MN has helped me track down a couple of half-remembered books from my teens, but I remember so little of this one that it may not be possible!
I read it sometime in late primary to the end of secondary school, so mid-80s to 1995. All I remember is:
- The main character is a teenager, and she and her mum (and possibly younger brother) had moved to a new house, possibly a quite old house, and possibly in the countryside/ on the edge of town.
- She became friends with a boy her age who lives near the new house, who is trying to prove that a building nearby had been used for a ‘Real Tennis’ court in the 15th-16th century (he explains it’s very different from Lawn Tennis like Wimbledon).
- She collects dried plants and sprays them silver to make Xmas decorations to sell at a local fair, as they don’t have much money. In my memory, this comes across as a 70s Laura Ashley-type idea, so the book may have dated from then
And that’s all I remember! Can anyone help?