Chapters 1 & 2 Summary

In Chapter 1, Jen Morgan makes her way from Massachusetts to Borth, Wales, where her family lives. Since her mother's death, Jen has been living with an aunt and uncle in Massachusetts while her younger brother and sister are with their father in Wales where he teaches at a local University. Jen is only visiting her family for Christmas vacation, and will have to return to Massachusetts afterward to finish high school. Her family is eagerly awaiting her arrival at the train platform and whisk her off to the home, Bryn Celyn. It becomes immediately clear that while Becky, who is ten, seems to be thriving in Wales, Peter, who is twelve, hates every moment away from home. He is particularly vocal about how there is nothing to do in Wales and how he hates learning Welsh, which he claims is a useless language...