Liam's Reviews > The Great Ghost Rescue

I have a very special fondness for this spooky adventure which you might call Watership Down with ghosts. I read it twice at primary school having been recommended it by a librarian on the weekly school trip to the local library. A family of ghosts is forced to leave its beloved castle ruin in a quest for a new home and during the exodus accumulate a motley company of phantoms and bogies. arguably the story touches on the challenges of being a marginalised or even invisible section of society and how deadly a dislike for the unlike can be. Author Eva Ibbotson explores the full range of Britain's ghostly traditions and invokes episodes from our dark history through the lens of humour to create something which is both compellingly fun and delightfully macabre.