Author:Robert Westall
'Ninety-eight keys, none of them labelled. Ninety-eight keys, and they say there are ninety-nine rooms . . . What will you find in the ninety-ninth room, I wonder?'
Maggi is delighted when her father takes a new job, renovating a crumbling stately home in Cheshire. It's a chance to escape from the North-East, from the predatory Doris Streeton, and perhaps from the grief at the heart of Maggi's family. But Maggi gradually comes to realize that their new home holds secrets far more sinister than anything they have left behind . . .
Blackman's touch is as sure as ever
—— ObserverBrilliant, intense and completely unpredictable . . . Dramatic and fast-moving
—— Reading MattersThis tragi-comic ghost story is sure to please Malorie Blackman's many fans. Her books always succeed in being fast-paced and very readable, while offering the more thoughtful reader several layers of meaning
—— BooksellerExpertly written
—— Primary TimesMake[s] the kind of breathtaking journey I wanted to begin again the moment I'd finished
—— Awfully Big ReviewsThrilling and chilling - but don't read it when home alone.
—— Amanda Craig , New StatesmanA suitably creepy tale of murder and urban exploration
—— Crime ReviewThe build-up of tension is so excellently handled that the desire to know what happens next has to be set against the fear that the revelation of what lies ahead is going to shock us well out of our comfort zone . . . she certainly knows how to play with a reader's nervous system
—— Robert Dunbar , INISA treat: original, beautifully written and very enjoyable
—— New Welsh ReviewA darn good adventure.
—— Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThis novel is a chilling ghost story, a gripping adventure, and a heartwarming look at the often-painful pull of adulthood.
—— School Library Journal
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