"Every child again took the hand of another, and on that most ghostly of all nights (the time when the dead do indeed walk with the living) a long chain of bodies could be seen snaking through the back part of town, past the school where many of them attended, across the Devil's Stone Bridge, out through the old iron gate of the village and down the long and winding alleyway leading past an odd clump of monkey-puzzle trees that no one remembered who had planted. Emain Fort loomed in the dazzling, rain-washed moonlight. Linsey was so thrilled with the escapade that she didn't even mind when little dead Mimsi took tight hold of her cloak." A foster home for war orphans of The Troubles, the old mansion known as October House sails into view one day, forever changing the lives of those who enter its doors... Do you love Pippi Longstocking? Do you adore Jacob and Susan from Green Knowe? Then prepare to fall head over heels for Peek the Morpholux and his foster-siblings Linsey and Gavin Lockley Join author Scath Beorh on the masterfully written journey of excitement and wonder that is OCTOBER HOUSE "
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