The Shade of Hettie Daynes

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A brilliantly atmospheric and chilling thriller from the master storyteller and multi-award-winner, Robert Swindells. If you expect to see a ghost, you see a ghost... That's what Bethan tells herself when her brother Harry takes her to see the ghost at the old reservoir. But she really can see it- a pale figure floating over the water, one finger pointing downwards.Local legend says that the ghost is Hettie Daynes, an ancestor of their family, who vanished over a hundred years ago.If so, what does she want And why is she appearing nowHarry and Bethan and their friends Rob and Alison are determined to find out!A deliciously shivery ghost tale from multi award-winning author Robert Swindells.

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Robert Swindells leaves nothing to chance in this most entertaining ghost story. They didn't have books for children like this when I was a nipper! * gatewaymonthly.com *
An exciting tale for the over 10s * Newbury Weekly News *
Gripping, spooky tale that is full of suspense * Primary Times *
A shivery ghost story * Aldershot Mail *

Author Bio

ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.'Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page' YOUNG TELEGRAPH