The Waking Spell

by Carol Dawson

Book Overview

When Sarah Grissom is seven years old, her brother adn her cousins--the Northgates--play a trick on her. They pretend there's a ghost in the attic of their grandmother's big, rambling East Texas house, and they take Sarah up to meet it. It's just a game for the others, but Sarah senses a frightening thing there, a presence. Is it a ghost? Without a doubt there is something--something cold, something deadly--lurking in the Northgate attic. Carol Dawson's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945575653
• ISBN13: 9780945575658
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

For those who love a Southern story, this one's for you!

The Waking Spell is a southern saga, epic in nature, of four generations of Texas women. As bizarre as her charcters seem...they are nostalgic. The older generation of women at once demand our loathing and our sympathy; the younger generations our pity, and, ultimately, our admiration for thier courage. A thoughtful read.