My Friend Walter

A little girl called Bess Throgmorton while visiting London encounters the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh, to whom she is distantly related. He is tired of hanging around the Tower of London after four hundred years, so persuades her to let him return with her to her home, a farm in Devon, near to where he spent his childhood. Naturally complications arise from having a ghost around the house, and then there are the financial problems her parents are having, struggling to keep the farm going. But perhaps Sir Walter can help with that? This is a very enjoyable dramatization of Dick King-Smith's book, with Ronald Pickup very good as Sir Walter, and Prunella Scales both funny and touching as Bess's houseproud Aunt Ellie. Fun for anyone who enjoys light comic fantasy.