Recently, I read and posted about my reading of Margaret Mahy’s The Changeover via two posts:

• Book of Magic: “The Changeover” by Margaret Mahy on the Supernatural Underground; and
• More Thoughts On Margaret Mahy’s “The Changeover” — A Tale of “Layers” here on my own blog.

Now I have a copy of the author’s latest re-release, The Haunting, to read and I hope enjoy as much.

The Haunting is also a Carnegie Award-winning book, although I believe it is aimed at a slightly younger age group: Junior fiction as opposed to YA.

Like me, you will almost certainly know that this has been an internationally acclaimed novel for many years, but what really counts is the story. Here’s what the back cover has to say:

“Eight-year-old Barney has been haunted before. He thought it was something he’d just grown out of, like the imaginary friends his stepmother believes he has. But this time it’s different. Footsteps follow him, there’s a demanding voice barking orders, and Barney begins to feel that sometimes his body is not his own at all…

With the help of his sisters, Tabitha and Troy, Barney sets out to uncover the truth about their family secrets and to find out once and for all who it is who’s haunting him.

The Haunting is a thrilling ghost story about a ‘mostly ordinary’ family and a secret legacy.”

That sounds pretty good to me so I guess I’ll be doing my release read pretty soon. 🙂