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'Unforgettable characters, chaotic family life and an intriguing ghost story combine in this funny, absorbing tale of a family who inherit a mansion on the other side of the world.
'I know what an endsister is,' says Sibbi again.
We are endsisters, Else thinks, Sibbi and I.
Bookends, oldest and youngest, with the three boys sandwiched in between.
'Meet the Outhwaite children. There's teenage Else, the violinist who abandons her violin. There's nature-loving Clancy. There's the inseparable twins, Oscar-and-Finn, Finn-and-Oscar. And then there is Sibbi, the baby of the family. They all live contentedly squabbling in a cottage surrounded by trees and possums...until a letter arrives to say they have inherited the old family home in London.
'Outhwaite House is full of old shadows and new possibilities. The boys quickly find their feet in London, and Else is hoping to reinvent herself. But Sibbi is misbehaving, growing thinner and paler by the day, and she won't stop talking about the mysterious endsister. Meanwhile Almost Annie and Hardly Alice, the resident ghosts, are tied to the house for reasons they have long forgotten, watching the world around them change, but never leaving.
'The one thing they all agree on - the living and the dead - is never, ever to open the attic door...'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also dyslexic edition
- Also large print.
Works about this Work
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[Review] The Endsister
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 33 no. 1 2018; (p. 37-38)
— Review of The Endsister 2018 single work children's fiction
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[Review] The Endsister
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 33 no. 1 2018; (p. 37-38)
— Review of The Endsister 2018 single work children's fiction
Awards
- 2019 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Children's Novel
- 2019 shortlisted REAL Awards — Fiction for Years 7-9
- 2018 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Children's Division