Frost Hollow Hall: 'The Queen of Historical Fiction at her finest.' Guardian

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Meanwhile, Tilly must control her nerve while working at this scary place, while continuing to discover the truth! Set in the 1800's the author transports us to a world rich in detail, with a protagonist that will instantly win your heart and tells a story that will both chill and excite in equal measure. At the start of the novel, Tilly works as a ‘pupil-helper’ at her local school, ‘cleaning slates and carrying coal and showing the young ones how to read’. With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics.

The boy appears to her in her dreams and Tilly realises that he is Kit Barrington, the heir to Frost Hollow Hall, who drowned 10 years earlier in the lake. She was in the right place at the right time, and it seemed that the hall had trouble holding on to staff. The characters are all phenomenal and we see the growth of every single one throughout the novel but I had a special soft spot for Tilly, a normal, independent and loving girl that although she has problems of her own delights in being able to help other people. and be prepared to be transported into a Victorian masterpiece that will grip you until the final page.Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today. We enjoyed the the ideas behind this story, the mysterious deaths and coincidences, the ghost story elements were good and creepy, there was plenty to speculate about. She finds life rather delicate and she quickly realises that there is an underlying tension, which is exaggerated when she continues to have her dreams of Kit Barrington, who had drowned in the lake 10 years earlier. The ice breaks and Tilly soon slips through and it seems certain she too will succumb to its icy depths until a hazy figure appears to her underneath the ice and pushes her back up. She believes that this vision is responsible for saving her life, and quickly attributes the vision to that of Kit.

Aber sie hat nicht nur mit Geldnot zu kämpfen, auch in der Familie selbst fühlt sie sich nicht wirklich angenommen und trägt eine tiefgreifende Traurigkeit in sich, die sie oft einsam macht. Whilst she is underwater, she sees ‘the most perfect creature… My very own angel, beautiful and full of light’ moving toward her. I have always been of the mindset that an adult shouldn’t dismiss a book as childish or uninteresting just because it was marketed as a children’s novel.

Außerdem ist Nach über Frost Hollow Hall eine viktorianische Geistergeschichte und für diese Art von Büchern hatte ich schon immer eine Schwäche. You can’t review this book without mentioning the gorgeous cover, which has a real Christmas feel to it. Sie verliert nicht den Mut und merkt am Ende, dass Träume und Hoffnungen natürlich schöne Ziele sind, man dabei aber nicht das aus den Augen verlieren und wertschätzen sollte, was man hat. So perhaps it was unsurprising when, on the hottest day of the year so far, she decided to read the most wintry-named book she could find: Frost Hollow Hall by Emma Carroll.

If someone had told me that I would read a book that has 'dreaming' chapters interspersed within the main text, I would have said, 'Oh, no, not for me'. Tilly, unlike the rest of the village girls, goes because she never backs down from a dare and not because she’s ‘silly’ over Will. I don't normally read YA novels, but I couldn't resist the allure of a Victorian ghost story, and Emma Carroll did not let me down.

This boy also appears to her in her dreams and she understands it to be the spirit of Kit Barrington who seems desperate for her to uncover the secrets behind his death. The novel was inspired by a ‘winter’s day from Emma’s childhood’, and the vividness of the setting is built up from the very first page. Ob Kinder ab 10 Jahren hier schon Verständnis gerade für die Auflösung aufbringen können kann ich grade nicht so einschätzen, ich würde es deshalb eher erst ab 12 Jahren empfehlen. I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly!

Not because she likes him like all of the other girls in the village but because she craves adventure and excitement in her life. Emma Carroll's descriptive prose is perfect in portraying Frost Hollow Hall as an intimidating yet beautiful place, full of mystery and dark secrets. In other words, if you are looking for a book with good characterisation and an engaging storyline, this might just be the book for you. Der Stil hätte noch etwas mehr an die historische Zeit angepasst sein können, dafür war die Atmosphäre und das Setting genau richtig - sehr fesselnde Geschichte mit einem dunklen Geheimnis und spannendem Aufbau!Tensions arise between Lady Barrington, Mrs Jessop, the housekeeper, and other members of staff and eventually, after an ill-fated séance, Tilly is dismissed, much to her disappointment for she was determined to unravel the mystery of Hollow Hall. but I liked some of the details, like the ones that gave the reader a more specific idea of what working as a servant in a big house might have been like. It is an astonishingly good book for someone's first novel but I do think you need to be about 11 to read it. Insgesamt fand ich es auf jeden Fall eine sehr gut aufgebaut Geschichte, mit gruseligen Momenten und tragischen Schicksalen, die mich sehr berührt hat.