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

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The author highlights how many people desperately believed in these while others were more sceptical. But Tilly wasn’t going to let know that she was worried, and she skated right out to the middle of the lake. Lots of mysteries are tied in throughout, and there is not a single page which does not vividly capture the imagination. I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books.

The sense of time and place are well established, as is the Higgins’ family dynamic and the relationships between the characters.Emma Carroll's voice flows elegantly through this ghostly period tale of Tilly and her discovery of haunting secrets at Frost Hollow Hall. She realised that there was something he wanted; he wanted her to go to Frost Hollow Hall, and to make the reveal the truth of what had happened there ten years earlier. Tilly, unlike the rest of the village girls, goes because she never backs down from a dare and not because she’s ‘silly’ over Will.

Told in Tilly’s unique voice, it is a tale of love and loss, and how forgiveness is the key to recovery.Insgesamt fand ich es auf jeden Fall eine sehr gut aufgebaut Geschichte, mit gruseligen Momenten und tragischen Schicksalen, die mich sehr berührt hat. Now Tilly has been dared by Will to skate on that very same ice and she is not the kind of girl to shy away at a dare, especially from Will who half the girls in the village are in love with. My favourite character was Tilly Higgins because she was desperate to support her mother when her sister and father run away abroad. Aus der Sicht eines Erwachsenen (und erfahrenen Krimilesers) wirken viele Geschehnisse und Wendungen etwas offensichtlich, für Kinder sind sie aber sehr spannend: Ein großes viktorianisches Herrenhaus mitten im Winter, über das viele Gerüchte kursieren, der unaufgeklärte Tod des einzigen Erben zehn Jahre zuvor, sich merkwürdige verhaltende Bewohner und natürlich die Geister - als das schafft eine sehr gruselige Atmosphäre, die selbst mir teilweise Schauer über den Rücken jagte. 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.