When was Merney here

Anna is not very easy to live in the world. She has no parents, this girl does not get too along with classmates, she is not fond of anything special, except perhaps the dreams in reality. Maybe something is wrong with her? But there is no one to share their doubts - after all, Anna has no sincere friend. Rather, it was not - until she was sent to the sea to stay with friends. There, Anna met a girl named Mernie-her first real girlfriend. Merney can talk about everything, it is so fun to play in the dunes and walk mushrooms, and she lives in a mysterious swamp house, which for some reason immediately seemed to Anna to familiar. Only sometimes Merney suddenly begins to behave very strangely ... It is so strange that Anna involuntarily thinks: is she real, this Mernie? And is Anna herself real? What connects two dissimilar girls from completely different worlds?
Soon after the publication, Roman Joan Robinson was nominated for the prestigious Medal of Carnegie, and in 2014 the world -famous Hibli Studio, created by the famous director Hayao Miyazaki, released the animated film “Memories of Mernie” based on the book. The story of Anna and Mernie’s friendship took eighteenth place in the famous list of fifty children"s books, which Hayao Miyazaki recommended for mandatory reading