The novel has been characterized as a farce, satire, and fairy tale. Reviewers recommended various appropriate reading ranges, including ages 12–14 and ages 10 and older. Love Among the Walnuts was first published on September 1, 1998, by Harcourt. Waldemar, and the residents of Walnut Manor together thwart Bart and Bernie and send them to prison. They expose the board of directors' misdeeds and Bentley revives the sleepers from their coma. Waldemar and the manor's residents, Sandy and Sunnie discover that Walnut Manor's patients were placed in the facility's care by their relatives, who, as Walnut Manor's board of directors, have been embezzling from the home. While Bentley researches a cure of the sleepers' comas, Sandy and Sunnie acquaint themselves with the other patients of Walnut Manor and ultimately fall in love with one another. Waldemar, the director of the facility, and Sunnie Stone, a nurse hired to care for the sleepers. To meet this requirement, Sandy moves them next door to Walnut Manor. The uncles feed the family a poisoned birthday cake in an attempt to inherit the family fortune, sending everyone but Sandy and Bentley into a coma.Ī court ruling mandates that a doctor be present to oversee care for the comatose patients ('the sleepers'). One evening when Sandy is a young adult, his uncles Bart and Bernie visit Eclipse. They move with their butler Bentley and his wife Flossie to a new country estate called Eclipse with no neighbors except the residents of Walnut Manor, a convalescent home. Horatio Alger Huntington-Ackerman, a successful businessperson, marries Mousey Huntington-Ackerman (née Malone), a striving actor, and has a child named Sandy. It was listed as a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults and placed third on the ranked Teens' Top Ten Books list, both in 1999. Reviews of the work have been mostly positive, with focus on the story's style and tone.

He moves them to Walnut Manor, a neighboring convalescent home, where, with the help of the nurse Sunnie, he tries to save his family and benefit the manor's misunderstood residents. The story revolves around a young man, Sandy, whose family is poisoned by his scheming uncles in a bid to gain the family fortune. Love Among the Walnuts: or How I Saved My Family from Being Poisoned is a farcical, satirical young adult novel with fairy tale elements written by Jean Ferris.

Love among the walnuts by jean ferris