The Candle House

by Pauline Fisk

When Vee and her father cross the Caus Valley, they feel as if they have entered another world. They find Maggot, girl of the night; Clem with his secret struggles, and a mysterious boy in black poised on a clifftop claiming to bring a message from another place, perhaps another time.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Died January 25, 2015.

Pauline Fisk is the author of eleven novels for young people of all ages. More can be found about her by going to her website.

Reviews

[Charlotte · Rating 4 out of 5]

rather a strange take on the standard spirits of British antiquity walking among the living to fend off unwanted modernity; the addition of a 16th century highway man/boy who has appeared in the present on a motorcycle in quite corporeal form, for instance, was a first for me. Didn't blow me away with numinous-ness, but a good read.