Author: Martin Waddell
I have read 25 pages and this is what has happed:
Ellen and her little sister Bella runs Bon Vista, a guest house in Ballaghbeg, together with Mrs Bailey, their mother. Their father is dead.
I have read 25 pages and this is what has happed:
Ellen and her little sister Bella runs Bon Vista, a guest house in Ballaghbeg, together with Mrs Bailey, their mother. Their father is dead.
One day a woman rang to book rooms for a family, the telephone line was very bad so Ellen didn´t hear all what the woman said. Ellen thought that the women wanted to book rooms for a family with a child of eleven, a small baby, mother and father. But when the guests arrived it showed out that the women in the telephone hade meant eleven children, mother and father. The guests who had arrived was the Mooney family. Mrs Bailey hadn´t expected so many persons and she didn´t knew where she would let them sleep. Then Ellen got an idea, they had an old back house at the end of the garden where she, Bella and their mother could sleep. Then the Mooney family could take their room in Bon Vista.
The back house didn´t have any electricity or water. No one had lived there for many years and the roof had lost many slates and it was dust all over the place. They had thought about cleaning the back house up since they bought the place, but they never got time. Ellen and Bella took the small rooms upstairs and Mrs Bailey slept downstairs in the room that used to be the living room.
After midnight Ellen woke up because she heard a clock ticking, but she knew that the only clock in the back house didn´t work because it had no minute hand...
The back house didn´t have any electricity or water. No one had lived there for many years and the roof had lost many slates and it was dust all over the place. They had thought about cleaning the back house up since they bought the place, but they never got time. Ellen and Bella took the small rooms upstairs and Mrs Bailey slept downstairs in the room that used to be the living room.
After midnight Ellen woke up because she heard a clock ticking, but she knew that the only clock in the back house didn´t work because it had no minute hand...
The whole story is around Ellen so I think that something will happen to her. It seems like she have special connection to the house. I haven’t got any ages of the characters in the book, but I got a feeling that Ellen and one of the Mooney boys will be very good friends....
When I read about the back house I think of a house like the one who the family Melkersson moves into in Saltkråkan (but smaller). When the family Melkersson came to Saltkråkan for the first time there are holes in the roof so it rains in and the house is very dusty.
I think that the author wants to give a spooky feeling about the back house. He writes about it in a spooky way. For example the clock that it first didn´t work and then it is ticking. I also think that it will be worse. The author starts whit something small, like the clock, and worse stuff is going to happen.
The book is so far not so bad. I understood early what it was about and the author has written in an interesting way. But I think I have to read more of the book to tell more about what I think of it.
When I read about the back house I think of a house like the one who the family Melkersson moves into in Saltkråkan (but smaller). When the family Melkersson came to Saltkråkan for the first time there are holes in the roof so it rains in and the house is very dusty.
I think that the author wants to give a spooky feeling about the back house. He writes about it in a spooky way. For example the clock that it first didn´t work and then it is ticking. I also think that it will be worse. The author starts whit something small, like the clock, and worse stuff is going to happen.
The book is so far not so bad. I understood early what it was about and the author has written in an interesting way. But I think I have to read more of the book to tell more about what I think of it.
//Läslusen
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