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The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

Author(s): Penelope Lively

Location(s): Oxfordshire

Genre(s): Children

Era(s): 1970s

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Set in present-day Oxfordshire, this novel features a boy and his modern family who are new in their English village, and seem beset by a poltergeist. Soon the boy makes acquaintance with the eponymous Thomas Kempe, ghost of a 17th-century resident sorcerer who intends to stay.

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Past his time

Author: Vasha

This book was a great favorite of mine when I was younger. It was an unusual haunting, and the English village was transformed by a ghost returning from centuries before. There was a good sense of the 1970s atmosphere....

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