Frost Hollow Hall: 'The Queen of Historical Fiction at her finest.' Guardian

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With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. Tilly makes it clear that they are poor: ‘We didn’t even own enough chairs for us all to sit down at the same time’, and so when her father fails to turn up, she begins to worry.

I have the Audible UK version on my phone, too, and I especially enjoy re-reading (or listening to) this book every year, as winter begins to approach.

What is revealed in this terrifying incident demands to be settled, and leads Tilly to investigate events from ten years earlier.

Außerdem ist Nach über Frost Hollow Hall eine viktorianische Geistergeschichte und für diese Art von Büchern hatte ich schon immer eine Schwäche.It's creepy, it's imaginative, it has a delightfully determined narrator in Tilly and it's wound through with an utterly believable love story. The characters are all phenomenal and we see the growth of every single one throughout the novel but I had a special soft spot for Tilly, a normal, independent and loving girl that although she has problems of her own delights in being able to help other people.

Durch die ständigen neuen Entwicklungen ist die Neugier immens gewachsen, was es mit dem Tod von Kit Barrington auf sich hat, der vor 10 Jahren im See auf dem Grundstück von Frost Hollow Hall ertrunken ist.

The story is told through Tilly's voice and the author has captured this brilliantly, you completely believe in the character because she is so well written. Whilst she is on the lake, she heeds no warning from Will to steer clear of the thinner ice, and finds herself underwater: ‘Slowly, gently, the lake closed over my head and all went quiet but for the blood pounding in my ears. I haven't charted out my visits for the summer term, but I'm sure there are several in the south) and thanks so much for being so fantastic!