'"You know you're dead, don't you, Sadie?" Sadie looked up. "I'm not, I'm not!" Then she smiled, "You can see I"m not." "But you are, Sadie. And you shouldn't be here. You have to go. And give Sarah back. It's wicked what you're doing."' Moving house is always disturbing but not everyone finds themselves living with a ghost.

Laura's 13th birthday pales into insignificance compared to dealing with the ghost-child Sadie who has befriended her kid sister and now starts inhabiting her body. Things start to get really dangerous and Laura's not getting any help from her brother. Her parents simply don't want to know. Some things make you grow up really quickly and trying to outwit a ferociously determined ghost is certainly one of them. Pat Moon has readers on the edge of their seats in this beautifully written, thoughtful, page-turner of a novel. (11 years and over). --Tamsin Palmer