Winner of the Young Quills Historical Fiction Award
Nominated for the Carnegie Medal
Maggie has witnessed impossible things. But no one believes her, and now
her family has taken her away to spend the winter upstate in a remote,
freezing farmhouse.
Bored and angry, Maggie and her younger sister Kate start to play
tricks: rapping on the floorboards above their parents' bedroom,
cracking their toes under the table, and telling tales about noises in
the night. Then the house starts to make sounds of its own. Neither
Maggie nor Kate can explain it, but it seems as though someone - or
something - is trying to speak to them . . .
Inspired by the incredible true tale of the Fox Sisters, the girls who
made their fortune in nineteenth-century America by speaking to ghosts.