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Lucy Strange is an award winning, best-selling author, known for her critically acclaimed children’s books The Secret of Nightingale Wood, Our Castle by the Sea and The Ghost of Gosswater.
Her books capture elements of classic children’s literature in a style that is engaging and accessible for today’s younger readers.
Often inspired by folklore and fairy tales, Lucy Strange combines historical settings with touches of magical realism and fantasy to create utterly convincing worlds in which anything might happen.
THE SECRET OF NIGHTINGALE WOOD
1919. Something terrible has happened in the Abbott family. Mama is ill and Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees – or thinks she sees – in the shadows of their new home, Hope House. All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden. One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale Wood. What she finds there will change her whole world…
A beautifully tangled story of friendship, fairy tales and family secrets…
OUR CASTLE BY THE SEA
England is at war.
Growing up in a lighthouse, Pet’s world has been one of storms, secret tunnels and stories about sea monsters. But now the clifftops are a terrifying battleground, and her family is torn apart.
This is the story of a girl who is small, afraid and unnoticed. A girl who freezes with fear at the enemy planes ripping through the skies overhead. A girl who is somehow destined to become part of the strange, ancient legend of the Daughters of Stone…
A beautifully tangled story of friendship, fairy tales and family secrets…
THE GHOST OF GOSSWATER
The Lake District, 1899.
The Earl is dead and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything.
Twelve-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall to live in a tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims to be her father.
Aggie is determined to discover her real identity, but she is not alone on her quest for the truth.
On the last day of the year, when the clock strikes midnight, a mysterious girl of light creeps through the crack in time; she will not rest until the dark, terrible secrets of the past have been revealed…
SISTERS OF THE LOST MARSH
Life is hard for Willa, Grace and Freya, and their three younger sisters. Six motherless girls working a farm, living in fear of their cruel father and the superstition that obsesses him – The Curse of Six Daughters.
With the arrival of the mysterious Full Moon Fayre, there’s a chance for the eldest girls to steal a moment’s fun, but the day the fayre moves on, Grace vanishes.
Willa goes after her, following a trail that leads into the dangerous Lost Marsh, where it is said a will-o’-the-wisp lures lost souls into the dark waters of the mire. If Willa is to survive and reunite her family, she will need to unravel the secrets her father has kept hidden, and face her own deepest fears…
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