From the very first moment she sees it, Tabitha knows there is something unusual about her new home. Used to moving house and school, Tabitha is quite willing to start a new life but, from the beginning, she is mystified by some of what she sees hears and smells. There's turmoil in Tabitha’s own life; now there seems to be confusion in the life of the home she lives in. Are the two related? Full of the unexpected, this is a classic ghost story with just the right amount of spookiness.
I've just moved into a creepy old manor house with my family. And it feels like the house is waiting for something. I can't explain all the things that are happening here. The maids I hear sobbing... The old ladies that stand in the hall. The cold breath of... Life? Death? I don't know. I can't tell Dad or Mum. But least I've got my little brother Ben to talk to.
This is a ghost story unlike any other...It will leave you chilled to the very last page.
Vanessa Curtis' last book, Zelah Green, was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Prize, the Nasen Awards and longlisted for the 2010 Branford Boase Award.
Vanessa Curtis originally trained as a pianist before becoming a freelance journalist and contributing articles to a range of magazines and newspapers. She is the author of two biographies on Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf's Women and The Hidden Houses of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell as well as a reviewer of fiction and non-fiction for broadsheet newspapers. She is the co-editor of the Virginia Woolf Bulletin, a literary magazine, and also works as a freelance literary consultant. She lives and works near Chichester Harbour.
