Joan G. Robinson

Anna hasn't a friend in the world - until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes. But Marnie isn't all she seems... A major motion picture adaptation by Studio Ghibli, creators of SPIRITED AWAY and ARRIETTY. Sent away from her foster home one long, hot summer to a sleepy Norfolk village by the sea, Anna dreams her days away among the sand hills and marshes. She never expected to meet a friend like Marnie, someone who doesn't judge Anna for being ordinary...

Feeling unwanted by the aunt who has come to stay during her parents' absence, a young girl runs away and lives on her own.

When shy, artistic Anna moves to the seaside to live with her aunt and uncle, she stumbles upon an old mansion surrounded by marshes, and the mysterious young girl, Marnie, who lives there. The two girls instantly form a unique connection and friendship that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. As the days go by, a nearly magnetic pull draws Anna back to the Marsh house again and again, and she begins to piece together the truth surrounding...