The Morgan family is spending a miserable year in Wales, coping with all the changes from their comfortable life in Massachusetts, and especially trying to overcome their grief at the death of their mother. Though Jen tries to help her brother, Peter, he withdraws into himself, unable to be comforted.

Everything starts to change when Peter finds an ancient tuning key that must have belonged to the great Welsh bard, Taliesin. At first Peter thinks the key is telling him a story of the bard’s legendary adventures. Then Peter realizes he’s being pulled back in time, forced to intervene to save Taliesin and return the key. But the key demands a high price for Peter’s involvement…

Reproduced from back cover

A String in the Harp

©1976 by Nancy Bond

Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Books USA