Stonestruck

Utterly spellbinding. Read it at one sitting so the magic does not escape. Jessica is evacuated ahead of the rest of her school to Powis Castle near Welshpool. With her father away at the front and her mother off to Belgium to drive ambulances, she wishes that she was anywhere but there and thus comes under the spell of The Green Lady who has been stealing local children for centuries. There are any number of truly shivery moments as the peacock messenger screams and the ghostly children emerge from the mist playing their sinister game of Fish-in-the-net. The locals are frightened and evasive as Jessica tries to fathom out the mystery and it finally takes an alliance with some Cockney evacuees to defeat the supernatural forces. If anyone from the BBC is reading this, I advise you to buy the serial rights NOW. This could be a classic.