The Last of the Spirits

                                         

Sam and Lizzie are freezing and hungry on the streets of Victorian London. When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins, he is rudely turned away. Months of struggle suddenly find their focus, and Sam resolves to kill the man. Huddling in a graveyard for warmth, Sam and Lizzie are horrified to see the earth around one of the tombs begin to shift, shortly followed by the wraithlike figure of a ghostly man. He warns Sam about the future which awaits such a bitter heart, and so begins Sam's journey led by terrifying spirits through the past, present and future, after which Sam must decide whether to take the man, Scrooge's, life or not.

A perfectly layered, tense and supremely satisfying twist on one of Dickens' most popular books, cleverly reinvented to entice a younger readership. 

 

 Hardcover, 208 pages

Published June 16th 2015 by Bloomsbury Children's (first published November 6th 2014)

ISBN: 1408854139 (ISBN13: 9781408854136)

edition language: English

url: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-last-of-the-spirits-9781408854136/

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