by Robin Jarvis · Simon & Schuster · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780750005814
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«The Whitby Witches» is Robin Jarvis's young adult fantasy novel, published by Simon & Schuster in paperback (276 pages, in English).
Jennet and Ben, two orphaned children, arrive at the coastal town of Whitby to live with Alice Boston, an eccentric 92-year-old woman. Ben possesses the sight and can see beings hidden from others, including the mysterious fisher folk. He discovers that Alice and her friends keep secrets, while a black hound prowls the streets.
First instalment of the «The Whitby Witches» series (book 1) by Robin Jarvis, originally published in 1991.
Aimed at young readers from around 10 years old, with an interest in fantasy and scary stories.
Robin Jarvis is a British young adult fiction (YA) and children's novelist, who writes dark fantasy, suspense and supernatural thrillers. His books for young adults have featured the inhabitants of a coastal town battling a monumental malevolence with the help of its last supernatural guardian (The Witching Legacy), a diminutive race of Werglers pitched against the evil might of the faerie hordes (The Hagwood Trilogy), a sinister "world-switching" dystopian future, triggered by a sinister and hypnotic book (Dancing Jax), Norse Fates, Glastonbury crow-demons and a time travelling, wise-cracking teddy bear. (The Wyrd Museum series), dark powers, a forgotten race and ancient evils on the North Yorkshire coast (The Whitby Witches trilogy), epic medieval adventure (The Oaken Throne) and science-fiction dramatising the "nefarious intrigue" within an alternate Tudor realm, peopled by personalities of the time, automata servants and animals known as Mechanicals and ruled by Queen Elizabeth I. (Deathscent).
