This was recommended to me by members of the book group. Not an ‘official’ read but an optional one as the author came to the library to do a talk.

It seemed like nothing happened for the first 100 pages but afterwards I became sucked into the plot, despite my disbelief that a child of 8 would know anything about people’s ‘energies’. Actually the whole spiritualism aspect annoyed me. The chapters written from the young girl’s point of view were very convincing though. The Gramps and Pastor characters were thoroughly menacing. The end felt rushed; it was a happy ending and I would have expected the author to make more of that. Anyway. Not sure I’d recommend this to anyone as there are better thrillers out there (e.g. The Girl on the Train) but it was a page-turner with some interesting ideas in it.