Excerpt

Read an excerpt from Helen Grant's latest book Ghost.

Prologue

Langlands House is haunted, but not by the ghost you think.

It's the ghost of a girl who died here during the War, that's what they say.

The house is difficult to get to—in the middle of a private estate and surrounded by forest. But if anyone does make their way up the winding track under the dark canopy of trees, they eventually find themselves on a gravel area in front of a big grey stone building topped with slate-roofed turrets. Langlands.

Although rare, this does actually happen. People travelling across country by foot stray from the usual routes and stumble across the house. Once, a census taker came to knock in vain. And occasionally, people come especially to look for the ghost...