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    Death of a Ghost

    By Charles Butler

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 30, 2014
    ISBN9780007394838
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    Death of a Ghost
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    Charles Butler

    Charles Butler lives in Bristol, where he works as an English Lecturer specialising in children’s fantasy.

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      At times, I've tried to identify what I think of as a very English style in prose for children and young adults. It's certainly not ubiquitous (it's absent in books I think of as very English, from Noel Streatfield to Julie Bertagna). But it's also a writing style which I see in many English children's books, and have never seen in other English-language prose for children.Reading Butler's _Death of a Ghost_, I think I have finally pinned it down. It's what I want to call the Alan Garner style of writing, and Butler is a master of it. Of course, this book is Garneresque in subject matter as well as prose style; I'm tempted to call it _The Owl Service_ meets Diana Wynne Jones' _Time of the Ghost_.As in Garner's works, _Death of a Ghost_ doesn't follow the usual narrative track for children's literature. If there's a coming-of-age, it's the most unusual one of ever seen. There's a full circle return to home, but it certainly isn't a comfortable or safe one. If there's a journey into the matters of adulthood than it is a primal adulthood, perhaps more comfortable to an adherent of Bettelheim into a contemporary reader of children's fiction. And if there's hope, it's a very unusual kind.If it's not clear that this is praise, then let me be explicit: this very unusual book is one of the best children's horror stories I've read. Anthony Horowitz fans might prefer a little more gore, but the story is a lot more terrifying.