Elegant, atmospheric, delicate, spine-chilling: if you’re not yet reading Emma Carroll, you’re missing a trick. Her wondrous books tick so many boxes we hardly even know where to start. Perfect nostalgia reads. Haunting spine-chillers. Grand adventures in the Blyton tradition. Doorways into a long-long past. There’s a wartime mystery involving hidden codes and kids who live in a lighthouse. There’s a cursed mission to Egypt in search of a lost pharaoh’s tomb. Or how about a boat trip into the past, to a flooded mansion that’s drowning in secrets? Instantly classic fiction. Prepare to fall in love with it. Wonderfully nostalgic and thrilling tales of adventureBy the author of Frost Hollow Hall and Strange Star Beautiful, delicate writing that shivers with atmospherePerfect for fans of Philip Pullman and Katherine Rundell