The Backwater

By Judith Crow

When Rebecca Williams' mother dies, she is sent from the city to rural Lincolnshire to live with her father. What she finds is a quiet, unassuming man who lives alone on a large country estate.

Lonely and nervous, Rebecca makes friends with a boy she meets at the lake. However, as their friendship develops, she discovers that her new friend is haunted by a secret which Rebecca must first unearth before it can be laid to rest.

A ghost story inspired by the guidelines used by the great M. R. James, but with the freshness in tone of the twenty-first century, The Backwater weaves together the guilt of the living and the anger of the dead to produce a chilling but tender story of one girl's struggle to find her place in the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0995786054
• ISBN13: 9780995786059
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Crowvus
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary