Frost Hollow Hall: 'The Queen of Historical Fiction at her finest.' Guardian

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Tilly takes part in a 'dare' from friend Will and ends up nearly drowning in Frost Hollow Hall lake while ice skating. Tilly makes it clear that they are poor: ‘We didn’t even own enough chairs for us all to sit down at the same time’, and so when her father fails to turn up, she begins to worry. I have always been of the mindset that an adult shouldn’t dismiss a book as childish or uninteresting just because it was marketed as a children’s novel. I don’t often read books written for younger readers, but there was something about Frost Hollow Hall: an interesting title, a lovely cover, and the promise of a Victorian ghost story. When Tilly was excited, (despite all of the other maids being terrified) I was excited, when she was scared, I was scared for her.

My favourite character was Tilly Higgins because she was desperate to support her mother when her sister and father run away abroad. So perhaps it was unsurprising when, on the hottest day of the year so far, she decided to read the most wintry-named book she could find: Frost Hollow Hall by Emma Carroll.

Vielen Dank an Netgalley/den Verlag für die Bereitstellung eines kostenlosen digitalen Leseexemplars! Trotz der teilweise recht tragischen Atmosphäre, in der Trauer, Verlust, Schuld und das Loslassen können eine wichtige Rolle spielen, waren auch schöne und warmherzige Botschaften zu finden. From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. This is a charming story which, despite dealing with dark themes of grief, poverty and death, remains light-hearted and hopeful.

It's creepy, it's imaginative, it has a delightfully determined narrator in Tilly and it's wound through with an utterly believable love story.Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first. Just to give some idea about the characterisation, the main character, Tilly, is a vivacious and strong-willed girl who is easy to relate to.

Ich hatte vor ein paar Jahren ein anderes Buch dieser Autorin gelesen, The Snow Sister, ein wirklich herzerwärmendes Buch.There were a couple of little things that bugged me, like Tilly taking SO LONG to warm up to Will (not that she has to like him right off, but we were given no real reasons for her dislike? Emma Carroll's debut novel came highly recommended to me by my sister and fellow blogger Chrissi Reads and after reading the beautiful synopsis, I was certain I was going to enjoy it. But rather than being too mawkish (despite some scenes which are desperately sad, not to mention the spine tingling moments) this is a book about letting go - setting free the living and the dead so that those left behind can carry on, to find their own way and happiness. This is such a beautiful book and a superior piece of writing that I will be eternally grateful that I've read it. She was in the right place at the right time, and it seemed that the hall had trouble holding on to staff.