The Drowning Pool

ISBN: 1847562663

Author: Moore, Syd

Condition: New

On a drunken night out with friends in the seaside town of Leigh-on-Sea, widowed teacher Sarah unwittingly creates a séance. Sarah and her son Alfie are then subjected to a terrifying series of hauntings and Sarah becomes convinced that the ghost is that of a 19th century Sea Witch and namesake, Sarah Grey.Sarah delves into the local legend which tells of how the witch made her living from the pennies that sailors threw her for a good wind. Allegedly, when the Captain of The Smack forbade his men to give her money, she cursed the crew and every man bar the Captain then perished in a violent storm. The Captain swore vengeance on the witch and the next day her headless body was found, in a bleak spot known locally as the Drowning Pool.Sarah discovers that her much-derided and irritating Headmaster, Andrew, has his own reasons for uncovering the origins of the legend and together they attempt to get to the bottom of the centuries-old mystery. When a series of old letters surface, Sarah discovers that nothing and no-one is as it seems, certainly not Andrew and maybe not even the ghost of Sarah Grey...

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