Meg is haunted by ghosts of her grandfather and his wartime friends. Her experience is intensified when a neglected piece of land is turned into a conservation area and her sleep and work become disturbed. Can she make sense of these visions and persuade others of their importance? The author has written some 20 books for children.
Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.
RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.
