Ghost at the Window

Ewan, born of English and Welsh parentage on the Scottish Borders, describes himself as a Borderer, someone who belongs in two places. This gives him a special affinity with Elspeth, the girl from another time who also belongs in two places. Elspeth died from diptheria in 1939 but has been unable to make the final transition from life to death. Instead she lingers in what is now Ewan's bedroom (in which she 'died') in the strange old house on the shores of a Scottish loch to which Ewan and his parents have recently moved. Ewan's unconventional background as an only child of highly creative parents allows him to cope with the unusual manifestations in the house and Elspeth's constant presence in his room, and he resolves to help her to pass from one life to the next. An imaginative supernatural story with an engaging and sympathetic central charcter.