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Ravencave

"This startling, gripping ghost story rings with the troubles of a fractured family, social inequity, and ancestral voices"

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March 2023 Book of the Month | Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8

True to his matchless style, Marcus Sedgwick’s Ravencave is unexpected, beautifully written and has a distinctly soulful feel.

James and his family have returned to Yorkshire for a holiday. It’s a place deeply connected to his dad’s family, and a “place full of ghosts”, as his mum remarks. But this is far from a cheery family break. James’ brother Robbie barely says a word to him, his dad has just been laid-off work by profiteering bosses, and his writer mum hasn’t written anything for ages — “Are you still a writer if you no longer write anything?” James wonders.

In this context, James is haunted by dark thoughts: “What makes people go on? I think. Then I think, I am too young to be thinking thoughts like this, aren’t I?” Then, on a family walk, he sees a ghost in the same ruins he explored a year ago. It’s a young girl who begs James to follow her. Someone needs his help.

Lucid and unsettling as James realises a terrible truth, this absolute page-turner melds ghost story shocks with real-world anxieties and family love: “We were there for each other. We still are”.

Joanne Owen

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