Lady Agatha Asquith has had a privileged childhood but it has been strange too. Her parents have felt distant all her life and Agatha has not been allowed to spend time away from the family estate called Grosswater Hall. As this story opens her father has just died. Her mother died two years ago. Cousin Clarence has arrived to claim his inheritance as the sole male heir and he has told Agatha she must leave now, today. He has told her that her real father is coming to collect her. And in a parting shot he declares her father is a convicted thief just out of gaol. Aggie's whole world is completely and utterly turned upside down.
There are so many mysteries here. Who is Aggie's father? Is it truly Thomas Walters the man who collects her and who lives in a small cottage with his geese? What did the Will, made by that father she has known all her life, really say? And where is the famed Queen Stone?
Yes there is a ghost in this story but that is certainly not the main focus. Aggie is a strong, brave, resourceful girl who is determined to find out the truth. I especially loved the tension in this story when Aggie visits the remote island graveyard at night with the mist and rain swirling around her - creepy and delicious. What a delight this book is! The surprise revelations about the true identity of Agatha completely took me by surprise.
You can read an extract from the book here. In this short video Lucy Strange reads from her book.
Here are the other two books on this blog by Lucy Strange which I also thoroughly enjoyed:
I would pair The Ghost of Gosswater with The Truth about Verity Sparks and The Haunting of Charity Delafield.
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