It is also just lovely conveying not only a strong sense of setting but fleshed out characters.
The writing is not Americanized but easily figured out. The two basically terrify each other but Patrick is convinced that goblin boy has it in for Dom. It's not Dom, it's a "goblin boy" with eyes as black as coal. Patrick is awakened the first night by a voice he thinks might be Dom's.
It is cold and blustery and the house is musty. After Nan burns their house to the ground, the family moves to a rental on the sea shore. He and his twin brother, Dominick and baby sister Dee live with their parents and their Nan, who has some sort of dementia. This atmospheric ghost story is set in Ireland in the 1970s and is narrated by fifteen-year-old Patrick Finnerty. (Finished copy courtesy of publisher for review.)
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