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Strange Star

Strange Star

Published: 7 Jul 2016

Paperback / softback, 320 pages

Recommended for age 9+ and 11+

By Emma Carroll

Published by Faber & Faber

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They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories. 'A tale to freeze the blood,' was the only rule. Switzerland, 1816.

On a stormy summer night, Lord Byron and his guests are gathered around the fire. Felix, their serving boy, can't wait to hear their creepy tales. Yet real life is about to take a chilling turn- more chilling than any tale.

Frantic pounding at the front door reveals a stranger, a girl covered in the most unusual scars. She claims to be looking for her sister, supposedly snatched from England by a woman called Mary Shelley. Someone else has followed her here, too, she says.

And the girl is terrified 

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