
A lonely boy's new friend has a frightening secret.

Matthew has come with his mother to the north Norfolk coast where she has rented a cottage in the grounds of an abandoned old manor-house. A local boy, Roly, becomes his guide through a lonely and mysterious landscape of dunes and creeks and sea. These and the derelict mansion...

In this reveting story of perception, second sight, and poignant friendship, lonely, blind Matthew makes a friend is a ghost. This book is a treasure.--Reviewers Top Choice.


The holiday would be an adventure, sleeping away from home for the first time in strange surroundings, a first step into the unknown. Matthew has come with his mother to the north Norfolk coast where she has rented a cottage in the grounds of an abandoned...