by Margaret Mahy
ISBN 0-14-036325-4
First published 1982
135 pages
Publisher: Puffin Books
Cover illustration by Alun Hood
5/5 Stars
An Australian ghost story. A boy plagued by dreams, by a ghost, by a particular ghost.
The book is set in small town Australia, a boy has lost his mother and his father has remarried.
But there is more to it than that, after6 chapters there is a twist and the book takes a turn you would never expect.
Interesting plot devices and great characterization of how being ‘haunted’ would feel like.
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