Ghost

LoveReading4Kids Says

Readers who relish witchy fiction, historic fiction and contemporary fiction are all likely to be spellbound by Finbar Hawkins’ Ghost - a beautifully suspenseful supernatural novel in which the episodic narrative is shared between three female voices. 

Divided by centuries, the young women are united by loss, and their connections to ageless spirit magic and an ancient evil that must be laid to rest. In Britain in 60 AD, Aine flees her Roman enslavers, having previously seen a vision in water of “two girls, hands joined” and been issued with a task “to find what you have lost”. Then there’s Sarah, a healing witch who lives centuries later, in 1783, and discerns Aine’s fears through nature and a portentous blackbird. And it’s Sarah who feels a connection to present-day Marie while in the woods that unites all three characters: “There is old magick in this wood. It brought me here. It brought a lost spirit to me. And now to another witch. Each of us out of our time…I know what I will make for my new friend from the future”.   

For her part, after dropping out of art school, eighteen-year-old Marie is staying with her aunt following the death of her beloved uncle. Having long “been drawn to all things supernatural”, and having seen supernatural presences since childhood, she now feels tragic histories and spirits from the past in “a stretch of woods known locally as…Sally in the Wood”.

Weaving a tapestry of wolves, long-horned beings bathed in goddess light, birds that serve as portals, and uncanny magic, Ghost casts a subtly chilling spell.

Joanne Owen

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