The Boy at the Window

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Lucy Strange’s new ghost story is filled with a deep melancholy and a sense of shifting realities that make it truly haunting.

Hugo’s home is a place of silence, grief, and secrets; the house he shares with his mother seems to draw in shadows and fog that not even the warm-hearted sympathy of their housekeeper or down to earth kindliness of their gardener can dispel. His father has been missing in action in the war for weeks, and when a telegram finally arrives, Hugo’s mother retreats further, leaving her son even more alone.

It’s then that Hugo meets the ghost of a boy just like him. As he and Nemo become closer, in the dark and the thick mist still swirling around the house, identities blur. Uncanny, sparely written, this is the kind of story that seeps into your consciousness to leave you feeling thoroughly unsettled. Published by Barrington Stoke, it is accessible to all readers.

Reviewed by Andrea Reece
Andrea Reece has spent almost her entire working life in children’s books, first as publisher, latterly as consultant, project manager and critic.
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About The Boy at the Window

Will Hugo heed the pleas of the fog-shrouded figure at the window and welcome him inside? A spine-tingling ghost story from bestselling author Lucy Strange.

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