Bookwitch

It’s good to know that I can trust Linda Newbery to get it right, just about every time she writes a book. She has a new book out today, Nevermore, and it’s very good. It took me a while to work out where Nevermore was going, though. Some aspects of the mystery were obvious from the start, and others only towards the end.

Nevermore is a real fairy tale, while still being entirely anchored in life today. Tizzie and her mum move to the country to live in a big, old country house, where her mum is the new cook. Tizzie loves her new life, but discovers a number of puzzling facts about the house and its past.

It takes Tizzie, and the reader, a while to get everything worked out. The ending is all you’d want it to be.