This book is aimed at an older audience; it has vocabulary and genre that would be suitable for a teenage audience. I really like this book because it had lots of mystery and spooky happenings. The plot of this book is, two teenage children go on holiday to the Irish coast, and this would be the perfect relaxing holiday for them if their weedy cousin hadn't decided to come with them. While on holiday their dreams of a perfect relaxing time were shattered when they found out that their holiday house was built on the remains of a potato field, of course a potato field does not sound that bad but when things go bump in the night, the three children begin to worry exactly what happened on the potato field. It turns out that the potato field always had a bad harvest; this meant that the owners of the potato field died of starvation. Now the ghosts are back and with their weedy cousin oblivious to the spooky happenings, their baby sister crying all night and the unbearable weather making them sick. We can assume that this holiday isn't going to be their best time ever. Their are two main characters in this book, they are called Colin and Prill, they are brother and sister. During the holiday their bond between each other is strengthened by the fact that they need to stick by each other during their times of ill health and through coping with their cousin Oliver. During the story Prill finds a bundle wrapped in rags in a shop, as she unravels it she discovers the body of a baby, she jumps to conclusions and thinks that this baby is Alison. The shopkeeper emerges from the back room and finds Prill screaming pointing at the baby. Once she calms her down the shop keeper explains that the baby once lived on the potato farm and that she had died when the harvest was poor. I really enjoyed reading this book; I would definitely recommend it for an older audience.
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