Lockett and Wilde’s Dreadful Haunting Mysteries The Ghosts of the Manor By Lucy Strange
Illustration By Pam Smy
Hardback published by Walker Books 19th September 2024
ISBN 9789781529526005
Pages 224
For 9-12 years old
Matilda Lockett is used to playing the ghost of Poor Dead Edna in her aunt’s spooky stage show. But when she experiences a most dreadful haunting at Beauchamp Manor, Matilda discovers she can really see ghosts! When she teams up with ghost boy Edgar Wilde, a new snooping partnership is formed.
MY REVIEW
Middle grade readers are in for a real treat with The Ghost Hunters by Lucy Strange. Aunt Evelyn, known as signora Valentine, a spirit-medium, puts on a spooky stage show. Uncle Barnabus and Matilda Lockett play a part in Evelyn’s theatre show. Matilda, plays the part of a ghost named Edna. Signora, tells the audience that Edna wants Uncle Barnabus to don’t forget to give Molly Cat her special supper on Christmas Day. With Signora asking for little Edna to appear to say goodbye to her uncle, then Matilda would appear on stage, as the ghost of Edna in a Victorian long white nightdress. Signora Valentine, is called to go to the most dreadfully haunted Beauchamp Manor. Matilda is used to playing a ghost, but while she is at Beauchamp Manor, she sees ghosts. This book that can be read anytime, but with Halloween coming up, with all the talk and stories around Halloween time, this the perfect, novel, with fantastic illustrations by Pam Smy.
I would like to thank Walker Books very much for sending me splendid ghost novel.
About author Lucy Strange
Lucy Strange is an award-winning British author, based in the Kent Downs in England. Her books include critically acclaimed ‘The Secret of Nightingale Wood’, historical fiction ‘Our Castle by the Sea’ and gothic mystery ‘The Island at the Edge of Night’. Lucy Strange’s books capture elements of classic children’s literature in a style that is engaging and accessible for today’s younger readers. Often inspired by folklore and fairy tales, Lucy combines historical settings with touches of magic and fantasy to create utterly convincing worlds in which anything might happen…
“Her lyrical prose is combined with a thrilling, intricately plotted mystery…” The Bookseller magazine.
Recommended for readers aged 9 and up.
Full length middle grade novels (published by Chicken House): The Secret of Nightingale Wood, Our Castle by the Sea, The Ghost of Gosswater, Sisters of the Lost Marsh, The Island at the Edge of Night
Dyslexia-friendly novellas (published by Barrington Stoke): The Mermaid in the Millpond, The Storm and the Minotaur, The River Spirit.
*COMING SOON* – Lucy Strange’s funny, cosy-gothic NEW mystery series, beautifully illustrated by Pam Smy: LOCKETT & WILDE’S DREADFULLY HAUNTING MYSTERIES. Book 1: The Ghosts of the Manor published by Walker Books, OUT September 2024 https://www.instagram.com/thelucystrange. https://www.Twitter.com/theLucyStrange. https://www.lucystrange.org/
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