When Marnie Was There , the 1967 novel by Joan G. Robinson . It was # 18 onHayao Miyazaki ’s inclination of recommended nestling ’s books , so this should n’t be a shock , although it ’s worth pointing out that Marnie will be directed by The Secret World of Arriety ’s Hiromasa Yonebayashi , as Miyazaki still maintains he ’s withdraw .
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If you read this sum-up of When Marnie Was There , courtesy of Amazon , it sounds like it was write with a Ghibli movie in mind all along :

Anna has n’t a friend in the world – until she meets Marnie among the Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin dunes . But Marnie is n’t all she seems … An atmospheric ghost account with truths to tell about friendly relationship , families and lonesomeness . Anna lives with surrogate parent , a misfit with no friends , always on the outside of thing . Then she is place to Norfolk to stay with old Mr and Mrs Pegg , where she runs angry on the moxie sand dune and around the piss . There is a house , the Marsh House , which she feel she recognises – and she presently encounter a unknown trivial young woman called Marnie , who becomes Anna ’s first ever champion . Then one twenty-four hours , Marnie vanishes . A new phratry , the Lindsays , move into the Marsh House . Having learn so much from Marnie about friendly relationship , Anna makes firm acquaintance with the Lindsays – and learns some strange truths about Marnie , who was not all she seemed …
When Marnie Was There is due to premiere in Japan next summer .
[ ViaAnime News web ]

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