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Trapped and alone on the salt marshes, Jodie is troubled by a haunting presence in this eerily atmospheric ghost story from multi-award-winning author Hilary McKay

Trapped and alone on the salt marshes, Jodie is troubled by a haunting presence in this eerily atmospheric ghost story from multi-award-winning author Hilary McKay.

Jodie never wanted to come on the residential trip to the field centre. A loner at school, she’s forced into a dormitory with other girls from her class who don’t understand her and talk about her behind her back. Even though they’re not trying to be mean, Jodie feels excluded and miserable, and eventually escapes out onto the salt marshes in search of a little dog she can hear barking in the distance. But the salt marshes are dangerous and Jodie gets trapped by the incoming tide. Stuck in the sucking mud, will anyone even notice that she’s gone? And where is the little dog that keeps barking so mournfully …?

Publisher Review

"Superbly chilling, brilliantly satisfying. A masterpiece of a modern-day ghost story." -- Emma Carroll "[Hilary McKay] has an unerring sense of children's dialogue and behaviour ... A ghost story with a difference" -- Berlie Doherty "A hugely satisfying story about real loneliness, real friendship and a real ghost ... Beautifully unpredictable." -- Lissa Evans