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After her parents' divorce, Emily and her mother and brother have to move to a tiny old house in an undesirable part of London. It's a difficult adjustment for all of them, and made harder by the uncomfortable atmosphere of the house. Then Emily finds out that it was lived in by plague victims in the seventeenth century. Their spirits will not rest - especially that of Seth, a boy who finds her as fascinating as she does him. How can they reach out to each other across three hundred years?A strong contemporary story is interwoven with a vivid and horrific account of plague-ridden London to make a gripping story of the supernatural.

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1858813840 / 9781858813844
Paperback
823.914
28/04/1997
United Kingdom
English
202p.
18 cm
teenage Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: London: Orion Children's, 1996.
Ghost stories always popular Authentic history The author won the W H Smith Mind Boggling Books Award for MEMOIRS OF A DANGEROUS ALIEN 'Utterly gripping ... a superbly evocative ghost story' The Times 'Seriously spooky and absolutely chilling ... wonderful' The Sunday Times 'Most enjoyably creepy ... a satisfying and substantial novel' The Observer 'Maggie Prince is a supreme storyteller' Daily Telegraph
Ghost stories always popular Authentic history The author won the W H Smith Mind Boggling Books Award for MEMOIRS OF A DANGEROUS ALIEN 'Utterly gripping ... a superbly evocative ghost story' The Times 'Seriously spooky and absolutely chilling ... wonderful' The Sunday Times 'Most enjoyably creepy ... a satisfying and substantial novel' The Observer 'Maggie Prince is a supreme storyteller' Daily Telegraph YFD Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's / Teenage)