With echoes of Helen Kellers story, we meet Liza, a young girl who due to sickness has become both blind and deaf. Frustrated at being unable to communicate, her world changes when a young girl Lottie visits the family Hop farm, and teaches her to be able to talk with her fingers. This then opens up a new world to Liza and for the first time is able to leave the farm and venture to new places, to the seaside and to busy London.
Liza though has her own secret that she is then careful to share, she sees Visitors, the ghosts who haunt the places that they lived in or died near, and it is their voices alone that she is able to hear.
I did so enjoy this little book, the Victorian setting was so vividly described and the characters seemed real and bright, with a little bit of ghosty business tossed in - perfect. 5/5
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