The Australian children Sibbi, Else, and, slightly less-so, Clancy are well-written and intriguing characters. Leave it conspicuously on your tween's bookshelf for them to experience, soon. It is a magical encounter of realisations and ultimately acknowledgement the ancestral tapestries that form our life stories. It's a tender glimpse at holding on, letting go and essentially taking a leap of faith far enough to believe in yourself. It's a beautiful introspective look at family bonds and dynamics exploring the feelings and reactions of family members of varying ages. This is a truly spellbinding read that unites past and present, cynics and eidolists (people who believe in ghosts). Only four-year-old Sibbi seems to have any indication of what is going on in Outhwaite House and why, however she struggles to make the adults understand about her encounters with the Endsister. None can explain this general malaise, each battling the change in various ways. Instead of flourishing in their new home, the Outhwaite family each experience subtle emotional and physical corruption after moving from Australia to a recently inherited property in London. Told in alternating points of view from each family member and a couple of resident ghosts, this story pulls readers from the gumtree-clad hills of Australia to the history-rich, leafy suburbs of inner London with mysterious charm and grace. Words flow like silken cream from Russon's pen in this captivating tale of ghosts, family disintegration and returning to ones roots. The one thing they all agree on - the living and the dead - is never, ever to open the attic door. Meanwhile Almost Annie and Hardly Alice, the resident ghosts, are tied to the house for reasons they have long forgotten, watching the world around them change, but never leaving. But Sibbi is misbehaving, growing thinner and paler by the day, and she won't stop talking about the mysterious endsister. The boys quickly find their feet in London, and Else is hoping to reinvent herself. Outhwaite House is full of old shadows and new possibilities.
They all live contentedly squabbling in a cottage surrounded by trees and possums.until a letter arrives to say they have inherited the old family home in London. And then there is Sibbi, the baby of the family. There's the inseparable twins, Oscar-and-Finn, Finn-and-Oscar.
There's teenage Else, the violinist who abandons her violin. We are endsisters, Else thinks, Sibbi and I.īookends, oldest and youngest, with the three boys sandwiched in between. 'I know what an endsister is,' says Sibbi again.
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