Product Description

Sisters Megan and Ffion have never had secrets, so when Megan goes to flat-sit all she's expecting is a rest and a change. When a stranger called Jack phones, Megan wonders who he is. Ffion behaves like she's just seen a ghost, and refuses to say any more. So is Jack a ghost? Ffion's not telling and when she disappears too, and the mystery deepens. Megan begins to fear for the future. She's always been the one who's looked after her little sister. Is this going to be the one time she can't?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #185401 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

About the Author
Lynne Barrett-Lee is the author of four novels and also writes as Daisy Jordan for Transworld. She lives with her family in Cardiff, Wales

Customer Reviews

Gripping
I really enjoyed this book - I wanted to know more about the relationship between Megan and Ffion. It's always good to have a happy ending!

Should This Be A Short Story?
The blurb on the back of the book gives the impression that this is a mystery although the only mystery that I could find was why it was every published in the first place.

The story's predictable and quite honestly, little more than a short story that's been padded out in order to fill the required 96 pages of large type. Hardly what you'd call a novel and while I realise that this is one of a series designed to bring books to emergent or infrequent readers, I really can't help asking whether it was really worth it. If I'd never read a book before and was handed this, I'd really wonder why on earth people ever bothered.

Ms Barrett-Lee's characters were two-dimensional, there was no sense of place and the story itself held absolutely nothing unexpected. I don't blame the author entirely, though. I just think it's a shame she accepted the offer to be part of this series because, as a first time reader of hers, it certainly hasn't inspired me to look for more of her work. From about one third of the way in, I just kept thinking "get on with it". Shame.

Buy a decent women's magazine for less a pound instead, and get at least a handful of short stories that are generally better paced and actually have surprising twists.

Unless you're learning to read and aren't interested in the story as much as being able to understand words, this is definitely not worth bothering with.