In the end, a lawyer named Mr.Smith returns to the household. They save Georgie while Sara is safely outside. Blunden travel through the fire by holding hands, and because Mr.Blunden is the one who must suffer, Jamie will not have to. Blunden (who is believed to be the creator of Blunden, Blunden and Claverton company), who helps Jamie and Lucy rescue Sara and Georgie from a fire supposedly started by their drunk adoptive father. Wickens, the housekeeper and mother to Bella who is to marry Sara and Georgie's guardian, and Tom, the gardener's boy. The ghosts' names are Sara and Georgie Latimer.īy drinking an infusion of various leaves, made from a recipe that Sara provides, Lucy and Jamie go back in time with the ghosts to meet Mrs. It turns out their uncle is trying to 'get rid of them', or murder them, and they are travelling forwards in time in order to get help.

Lucy and Jamie return the next day to discuss with the ghosts. She goes closer, only to discover the ghosts in person: a teenage girl and her younger brother. One day, Lucy is walking in the garden to explore and to pick flowers when she hears the ghosts calling her name. Allen takes the job, despite the rumours of ghosts haunting the old house. Latimer, until the Blunden, Blunden and Claverton company can find the rightful owner. He offers her a job as caretaker of an abandoned house, which belonged to the late Mr. Allen, a widow who lives with her three children Lucy, Jamie and her baby Benjamin, in Camden Town, London. The story opens with an elderly man visiting Mrs. After being out of print for over three decades, a new edition of the book is scheduled for release in December 2021 by Virago Books under the title The Amazing Mr. Blunden, with a second adaptation produced in 2021. It was filmed twice, first in 1972 as The Amazing Mr. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The Ghosts is a children's fantasy novel written by Antonia Barber in 1969.

The Ghosts by Antonia Barber