This house is haunted
Readers rate it 3.3 (41 on Hardcover)
297 pages · Released 2013 · Doubleday
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This is a gothic ghost story set in Victorian England with genuine atmospheric horror and supernatural menace, but violence is largely implied rather than graphic. The story centers on Eliza's courage and determination to protect the children and uncover truth, making it more psychologically intense than physically brutal. It's best suited to older middle-grade or young teen readers comfortable with sustained creepy tension and dark secrets, but not graphic gore or explicit content.
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1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing doctor. When she... 1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing doctor. When she finally arrives, shaken, at the hall she is greeted by the two children in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There are no parents, no adults at all, and no one to represent her mysterious employer. The children offer no explanation. Later that night in her room, a second terrifying experience further reinforces the sense that something is very wrong. From the moment she rises the following morning, her every step seems dogged by a malign presence which lives within Gaudlin's walls. Eliza realizes that if she and the children are to survive its violent attentions, she must first uncover the hall's long-buried secrets and confront the demons of its past.
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- Family secrets
- Historical fiction
- Governesses
- Haunted houses
- English Ghost stories
- Fiction
- Fiction, horror
- Fiction, ghost
- England, fiction
- Fiction, historical, general
- History
- Fiction, historical
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ISBN 9780857520920 · Doubleday