Athens has been lumbered with an embarrassing name, a father obsessed with house renovating and a younger brother equally obsessed with emulating his hero, the magician and escapologist Harry Houdini. Add to the mix - a talent quest,a crush Athens has on a boy named Troy and a series of unsettling, ghostly messages from an array of mirrors left behind in the latest house in which Athens and her family are living.
Bill Nagelkerke is a children’s writer and former librarian. Nagelkerke has also translated many books from Dutch into English, chiefly for Wellington’s Gecko Press, including several picture books by Leo Timmers.