Young Toseland Oldknow Tolly, please, if you must give him a nickname, not Towser, or worse,
Toto (I am trying to look past the implied insult to Oz here, everyone) is off to live with his great-grandmother in a very old house that to him feels very far away. He is both scared and slightly hopeful: since the death of his mother, his only real family is a distant father and a well meaning but generally clueless stepmother, so a great-grandmother feels like
something. She might even be real family.
Spoiler: she is. What Tolly didn’t expect and couldn’t expect were the ghosts. Or, if you prefer,