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Yaxley's Cat By Robert Westall Mystery Young Adult Paperback Book 1991
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Yaxley's Cat: By Author Robert Westall!
1991, Softcover Book. In very good condition, 147 pages. For ages 12 and up!
•Title: Yaxley's Cat
•Author: Robert Westall
•1991 - Scholastic
•Format: Softcover Book
•Pages: 147
•ISBN: 0590451766
•Conditon: Very Good
This novel by the author of Blitzcat and Ghost Abbey evinces a crackling pace that will keep pulses racing.
While vacationing in East Anglia, Rose and her children come across a deserted cottage that, on a whim, they rent for a week. Unbeknownst to Rose, the cottage's previous inhabitant--who disappeared seven years before--was a Cunning Man, or village witch.
Rose's tenancy of the Cunning Man's house arouses the suspicions of the villagers; it takes only a few unfortunate incidents to convince them that Rose and her family are witches-in-training--and need to be permanently disposed of.
Told entirely from Rose's point of view (an unusual choice for a YA novel, especially one in which two of the three protagonists are children), the narrative builds to a truly frightening climax.
As the plot ticks merrily along, moving with a tidy deadliness that calls to mind Hitchcock's creepiest films, even the most commonplace events acquire a sinister cast.
1991, Softcover Book. In very good condition, 147 pages. For ages 12 and up!
•Title: Yaxley's Cat
•Author: Robert Westall
•1991 - Scholastic
•Format: Softcover Book
•Pages: 147
•ISBN: 0590451766
•Conditon: Very Good
This novel by the author of Blitzcat and Ghost Abbey evinces a crackling pace that will keep pulses racing.
While vacationing in East Anglia, Rose and her children come across a deserted cottage that, on a whim, they rent for a week. Unbeknownst to Rose, the cottage's previous inhabitant--who disappeared seven years before--was a Cunning Man, or village witch.
Rose's tenancy of the Cunning Man's house arouses the suspicions of the villagers; it takes only a few unfortunate incidents to convince them that Rose and her family are witches-in-training--and need to be permanently disposed of.
Told entirely from Rose's point of view (an unusual choice for a YA novel, especially one in which two of the three protagonists are children), the narrative builds to a truly frightening climax.
As the plot ticks merrily along, moving with a tidy deadliness that calls to mind Hitchcock's creepiest films, even the most commonplace events acquire a sinister cast.
