Nicola's Ghost

There is a dark secret haunting the Sharpe family. They are strange and remote, and when Stephanie Topham is told she must work with Nicola Sharpe in a science project at school, she is horrified. As part of their project, they have to make a pinhole camera. But when they take a photo with the camera, there is a ghost-like figure in their picture. This figure becomes a key to opening up Nicola Sharpe and revealing the secrets of her family. Through a series of appearances in various photos the ghost directs Nicola and Stephanie into a past that is full of revelations, twists and surprises. Some are painful, some tear at the fabric of the Sharpe family. But the unraveling of Nicola's past is the saving of the Sharpes, and, in a final twist it gives Nicola something more amazing than anything she has ever dared contemplate, even in her deepest dreams. 'John Kitchen creates a great plotline with Nicola's Ghost, a story with a twist for pre-teens ... a good book. One I will be giving my daughter to read.' Reader's review - The Self Publishing Magazine.

John Kitchen is a retired schoolteacher living in Ducklington in Oxfordshire, England. As a teacher he wrote plays, pantomimes and musicals for the children at his school. He lives in a three hundred year old Cotswold cottage, with a bright yellow study where he writes his books. He is widowed with two children and three grandchildren. Nicola's Ghost is John's first published book. He hopes there will be many more.