Lucy Strange’s new ghost story is filled with a deep melancholy and a sense of shifting realities that make it truly haunting.
Hugo’s home is a place of silence, grief, and secrets; the house he shares with his mother seems to draw in shadows and fog that not even the warm-hearted sympathy of their housekeeper or down to earth kindliness of their gardener can dispel. His father has been missing in action in the war for weeks, and when a telegram finally arrives, Hugo’s mother retreats further, leaving her son even more alone.
It’s then that Hugo meets the ghost of a boy just like him. As he and Nemo become closer, in the dark and the thick mist still swirling around the house, identities blur. Uncanny, sparely written, this is the kind of story that seeps into your consciousness to leave you feeling thoroughly unsettled. Published by Barrington Stoke, it is accessible to all readers.
Will Hugo heed the pleas of the fog-shrouded figure at the window and welcome him inside? A spine-tingling ghost story from bestselling author Lucy Strange.
Folk say the fog plays tricks - that it shapes itself into little hands and frightened faces that press at people's doors and windows, desperate to come inside. But Hugo is convinced the ghost he has seen at the window is no trick of the fog. The boy's hollow eyes are haunting him. What would happen if Hugo were to open the door and let him in? Brace yourselves for a chilling, wintery ghost story …
Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
'A classic ghost story from a master of the craft' - Phil Hickes
'A deliciously spooky read' - Dan Smith
'A truly haunting and beautifully written Gothic ghost story that will haunt me for the rest of my life'- Tamsin Winter
'Absolutely superb' - Hilary McKay
Author
About Lucy Strange
Lucy Strange is the best-selling children's author of titles including The Secret of Nightingale Wood, a Waterstones Children's Book of the Month, and Our Castle by the Sea, which was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for the Waterstones Book Prize, and was the first Independent Booksellers' Children's Book of the Month.
After studying English Literature at Sheffield University, Lucy Strange trained at the Oxford School of Drama and worked as an actor, singer and storyteller for some years before becoming an English and Drama teacher. On moving to Dubai, she launched the award-winning blog Homesick and Heatstruck and has worked as a freelance writer.
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