The Other Face

A combination of a ghost story vibe and a time-travel adventure, with a teen girl who gets to know herself better as she learns her family history. Subtle, and probably rich & wonderful for the right reader, but it didn't quite work for me.

"Betony had "the other face" that appeared from time to time in the Dovewood family. Her cousins recognized it - dark and delicate - as soon as she stepped of the train, arriving for her all-too-temporary holiday from being unpaid maid-lf-all-work to two eccentric old aunts. But none of the Dovewoods could have guessed the origin of Betony's face nor how she would find the key to that origin in the family past. For the old cracked china knick-knack, discovered in her grandfather's shop, gave no hint of possessing strange power!" -- from the book jacket.