Unraveling Isobel
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
A darkly comic novel that “combines the perfect mix of mystery and romance to create a delightfully creepy chick lit-y ghost story” (School Library Journal), from the author of The Education of Hailey Kendrick and Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood.
Isobel’s life is falling apart. Her mom just married some guy she met on the Internet only three months before and is moving them to his sprawling, gothic mansion off the coast of nowhere. Goodbye, best friend. Goodbye, social life. Hello, icky new stepfather, crunchy granola town, and unbelievably good-looking, officially off-limits stepbrother.
But on her first night in her new home, Isobel starts to fear that it isn’t only her life that’s unraveling—her sanity might be giving way too. Because either Isobel is losing her mind, just like her artist father did before her, or she’s seeing ghosts. Either way, Isobel’s fast on her way to being the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons.
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When Isobel's mother marries a recent widower after a whirlwind courtship, the high school senior is angry about moving from Seattle to her stepfather's crumbling estate on a nearby island. Soon, she is upset for another reason: she thinks she is being haunted by the ghost of her stepfather's young daughter. "Avenge her death?" quick Isobel quips, discussing the strange occurrences with her best friend. "Does she think I'm some sort of teen version of Chuck Norris?" Meanwhile, Isobel's stepfather is persuading her mother that Isobel is mentally unstable, just like her biological father. An old mansion near a stormy ocean is a spine-tingling setting for this ghost story, especially when Isobel learns about other suspicious events that have taken place there. Cook (The Education of Hailey Kendrick) sometimes relies on overly familiar devices (such as when Isobel and her new friends try out a Ouija board during a slumber party), but Isobel's sass and her steamy romance with her new stepbrother will help readers race toward the dramatic conclusion, even if the climax predictably occurs on a cliff during a rainstorm. Ages 14 up.
