Emma Mason

Emma has wanted to be a writer since she was a child, entranced by the mysterious squiggles on pages that grown-ups magically translated into stories. Once she realised they were words, her ambition was set – to write some of her own. Emma gets most of her ideas by daydreaming. She loves browsing second-hand bookshops, imagining what the past was like, and anything to do with time-travel. She has worked as a nursery assistant and in a library. She was shortlisted for the Kelpies Writing Prize in 2019. Emma is half German, but grew up in Scotland.

The Winter of Spindlewood Cottage

Lockdown, November 2020: When twelve-year-old Billy is sent to stay with his Granny in her remote house in the Lake District, his turbulent relationship with his older sister, Florence, is tested to the limit. Battling boredom and loneliness, Billy is drawn to Spindlewood, an abandoned cottage surrounded by quicksand – where he and Florence begin exchanging letters with mysterious children. But there’s something strange, perhaps even ghostly, about these children. Why do they write in such an old-fashioned way, about war, and being evacuated to the countryside? As Billy and Florence confront secrets both past and present, their lives are about to be changed forever… Upper MG time slip.

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