Moody and withdrawn when his family moves to an English estate, a thirteen-year-old improves his disposition after contact with the two-hundred-year-old ghost of a French lieutenant.
Richard Thomas Church CBE (26 March 1893 – 4 March 1972) was an English writer, poet and critic; he also wrote novels and verse plays, and three volumes of autobiography.
He had a great love for the Kent countryside and this is reflected in much of his writing. He published an anthology of works on Kent.
He lived at The Priest's House at Sissinghurst Castle in Cranbrook.