Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination A ghostly mystery and winner of the Whitbread Award,republished in the Collins Modern Classics range. Maria likes to be alone with her thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people. But whilst on holiday she begins to hear things that arent there a swing creaking, a dog barking and when she sees a Victorian embroidered picture, Maria feels a strange connection with the ten-year-old, Harriet, who stitched it. But what happened to her? As Maria becomes more lost in Harriets world, she grows convinced that something tragic occurred Perfect for fans of ghostly mysteries like Toms Midnight Garden.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Collins, Collins Modern Classics .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

This book was published in 2021 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Lucy Scott is the best-selling author of Doodle Diary of a New Mom. She is the co-founder of a pre-production visualising studio called Treehouse 24 and has had her artwork exhibited in London, New York, Edinburgh, and Tbilisi. Busy, Busy is her first children's book. She lives in the UK. Penelope Lively was born in Cairo Egypt. She came to England when she was 12 years old. She went to school in Sussex and studied at Oxford. She has written many award winning adult and children's books and now lives in London. She has four grandchildren.