A House Without Mirrors

A moving ghost story that explores the overcoming of loss, and how to move on

'A classic story that has it all' Dagens Nyheter

Thomasine has spent months living in her great-great-aunt’s dusty, dark house with her father, and her aunt, uncle and cousins. While her father’s siblings bicker about how much the house must be worth, her distant, elderly aunt is upstairs, dying, and her father has disappeared inside himself, still mourning the death of Thomasine’s little brother.

But one day, her youngest cousin makes a discovery: a wardrobe, filled with all the mirrors missing from the big house. And through the mirrors, a different world – one in which you can find not what you most wish for, but perhaps what you most need… A beautiful tale of love, grief and growing up, A House Without Mirrors is an unforgettable adventure into families and the power of love.

“What have you done, Signe?” I said, my voice small and pathetic. “Where are we?”

Signe looked at me again, baffled, and in the weak light from the windows her face looked ghostlike.

“You can ask her,” she said, nodding towards the door to the corridor. “She lives here.”

I couldn’t answer. All I could do was stare at the little girl in a sailor dress who was standing in the doorway.

Translated from the Swedish by Karin Altenberg
180 pp
Published 04/07/2013
ISBN 9781782690078
Pushkin Children’s Hardback
£12.99