THE SUMMER OF LILY & ESME

Poolbeg, Dublin, 1996, reprint.  ISBN 1-85371-208-6.  MMPB, 199 pages.  Very good; some edge and cover wear, light creases; binding tight.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘What a summer it is for Alan! He wasn’t much looking forward to living in the country, not after spending all of his life in Dublin. And when he finds that his next-door neighbours are two very old ladies, he’s not much happier.  There’s a locked room at the top of his house and a story of the ghost of a boy called Albert who died tragically. When Lily and Esme, the two old ladies, start calling him Albert, he begins to get worried but is determined to solve the mystery. With the help of a new friend, Lisa, this time of his own age, and some friendly grown-ups, he unearths the story of another summer seventy years before and is at last able to give his new friends their dearest wish.’ (from rear wrap)