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The Ghosts by Antonia Barber5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucy and Jamie are ecstatic to have an old house and its garden to explore.undeterred by whispers that the place is haunted.īut it is haunted, in a way. And despite the strange circumstances, and the vague mystery surrounding the old man, the offer is good. This comes as a godsend to the family, struggling to hold on after the father's death. He brings good news-the offer of a job for their mother, as caretaker to a country house. On a cold and rainy night in London, a stranger comes to the home of Lucy and Jamie. Today's book is one of the later, one I read as a nine year old, and recently found again: The Ghosts, by Antonia Barber (1969, ages 10 and up).* On the left is the cover I knew as a child, at the bottom is the modern reprint cover that is utterly and completely hideous and enough to turn anyone against the poor book forever. In my Timeslip Tuesday posts, I seem (generally) to have two broad categories of book-those that are recent, and new to me, and those that I read as a child-books that have haunted me ever since. ![]()
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