Home alone with two ghosts and her cousin is not something Araminta Spook had in mind when her aunt and uncle headed off just before her birthday. This is a real page-turner with plenty of imaginative characters, twists and turns in the plot that are both funny and gripping and in the end Araminta finds a way to get rid of the ghosts for good.
Araminta's Aunt Tabby has won a Transylvanian holiday for four so she and all the adults of Spook House are going for a much-needed break but it just so happens to be Araminta's birthday, too. So who will keep an eye on Araminta and her friend Wanda? Mathilda, Araminta's 'grown up' cousin, arrives to babysit, along with two rowdy teenage ghosts. At first, Araminta and Wanda are in heaven - staying up late, playing loud music, and ordering take aways - no more of Aunt Tabby's rules! But they soon find themselves cleaning up after everyone else; being home alone isn't turning out as they'd hoped.
Angie Sage grew up in the Thames Valley, London and Kent. She went to Art School in Leicester where she studied Graphic Design and Illustration. After college she started illustrating books and then progressed to writing, first toddler books, later chapter books and now, Septimus Heap. She lives overlooking a creek in Cornwall and loves sailing her boat, Muriel, and all things to do with the sea. She has two grown up daughters. Read a Q&A with the author here.
