‘The Last of the Spirits’ by Chris Priestley
What would Christmas be without a ghost story? Chris Priestley, master of the macabre, has written one that will send shivers down the spine and can be enjoyed by all the family.
Sam and Lizzie are freezing and hungry on the streets of Victorian London. When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins, he is rudely turned away. Months of struggle suddenly find their focus, and Sam resolves to kill the man.
A perfectly layered, tense and supremely satisfying twist on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, cleverly reinvented to entice a younger readership. For age 9+
