Book description
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
meets Lord of the Flies in the exciting debut from Angharad
Walker.
'A mesmerising other-worldly story that got deep under my
skin - I couldn't put it down.' JASBINDER
BILAN, author of Asha & the Spirit Bird
'Dark,
tense and intoxicating ... Seriously exciting.'…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Ash House as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I still think about the setting of The Ash House all the time.
It is so vivid and so real. The eeriness and spookiness of this place starts from the first page, even the first sentence. We know something is off here in the ash house, and we watch as the main character starts being subsumed by the other kids here.
We worry as he starts losing his identity. But this is a powerful and haunting story about listening to yourself and remembering yourself no matter what else is going on around you, and no matter what anyone else believes.
From Sarah's list on where the monsters are more than monsters.
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