The Ghost of Gosswater Get £10 off when you order £50 across the Scholastic Shop by Lucy Strange (author)

What ghostly secrets lie hidden within the walls of Gosswater
Hall? A thrillingly Gothic tale from
the Waterstones Book Prize-shortlisted author of Sisters of
the Lost Marsh.
‘Storytelling at its very best’ Kiran Millwood
Hargrave, author of THEGIRL OF INK & STARS

‘Family secrets, a ghost girl and a forbidding manor house
that goes up in smoke … You can’t help rooting for Agatha in this
spooky, addictive tale’ THETIMES

‘Eerie, shimmering, unputdownable’ HILARYMCKAY,
winner of the Costa Book Award

The Lake District, 1899

The Earl is dead and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything.

Twelve-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall
to live in a tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims
to be her father.

Aggie is determined to discover her real identity, but she is
not alone on her quest for the truth.

On the last day of the year, when the clock strikes midnight,
a mysterious girl of light creeps through the crack in time; she
will not rest until the dark, terrible secrets of the past have been
revealed …

The third novel by acclaimed bestselling author Lucy
Strange, author of The Secret of Nightingale Wood and Our
Castle by the Sea

A thrilling gothic adventure for young readers aged 9
and up; perfect spooky Halloween reading

For fans of Emma Carroll and Frances Hardinge

Follows strong-willed heroine Agatha Gosswater as she
untangles the dark mystery of her own past, with the backdrop of
the eerie Gosswater Lake