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Ghibli Adapts Joan G. Robinson's When Marnie Was There Novel Into Anime

Film distributor The Secret World of Arrietty.

Amazon posted a publisher's description of the novel:

Anna hasn't a friend in the world - until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes. But Marnie isn't all she seems...An atmospheric Ghost Story with truths to tell about friendship, families and loneliness. Anna lives with foster parents, a misfit with no friends, always on the outside of things. Then she is sent to Norfolk to stay with old Mr and Mrs Pegg, where she runs wild on the sand dunes and around the water. There is a house, the Marsh House, which she feels she recognises - and she soon meets a strange little girl called Marnie, who becomes Anna's first ever friend. Then one day, Marnie vanishes. A new family, the Lindsays, move into the Marsh House. Having learnt so much from Marnie about friendship, Anna makes firm friends with the Lindsays - and learns some strange truths about Marnie, who was not all she seemed...

The novel is one of the 50 books that Ghibli co-founder The Wind Rises.

The film's website has the tagline, "There is a magical circle invisible to the naked eye in this world."

Hime Chen! Otogi Chikku Idol Lilpri) is scoring the soundtrack.

Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web via tsk06