SuitabookGhost
Finbar Hawkins
- Reading
- The changing historical strands may reward keeping brief notes on each girl, period and connection. If the supernatural scenes feel intense, pause after a section and discuss what is known, suspected and still unresolved.
- Themes
- Connection across time: Aine, Sarah and Marie are linked through the same woods, spirits and old magic despite living in different periods. The story presents connection across time as central to how the girls understand and confront what threatens them.
- Courage and agency: Each girl faces a different form of danger or adversity, and the present-day storyline requires Marie to investigate and respond to what she senses. The book presents this favourably.
- History, oppression and loss: Aine runs from Roman enslavement, Sarah survives after her mother’s death and is associated with accusations of witchcraft, while Marie is dealing with family loss. These experiences form the characters’ circumstances and contribute to the book’s focus on injustice, survival and redemption.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether the reader welcomes eerie supernatural danger, ghostly voices and frightening imagery. The story also includes enslavement, accusations connected with witchcraft, bereavement and a mysterious death; the degree of graphic detail is not clear.