Ghost Abbey

by RobertWestall (Author), RobertWestall (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $7.80

  Maggi knew that the old abbey had power and she couldn't decide whether she and her dad were meant to stay or not. So many awful things nearly happened, then the abbey relented just in time. Mzz MacFarlane seemed to want them to stay - or was it just Maggi's father she was interested in? Robert Westall has twice won the Carnegie Medal, for The Machine-Gunners and The Scarecrows . His other novels include Devil on the Road , Fathom Five and The Cats of Seroster .

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.29

  Ninety-eight keys, none of them labelled. Ninety-eight keys, and they say there are ninety-nine rooms ...what will you find in the ninety-ninth room, I wonder?' Maggi is delighted when her father takes a new job, renovating a crumbling stately home in Cheshire. It's a chance to escape from the North-East, from the predatory Doris Streeton, and perhaps from the grief at the heart of Maggi's family. But Maggi gradually comes to realize that their new home holds secrets far more sinister than anything they have left behind ...