Strangers at Witchend (by Malcolm Saville)

I am so pleased I decided to re-read the ‘Lone Pine’ series by Malcolm Saville over the past couple of years. They were some of my favourite books as a teenager, and I’m delighted to have managed to acquire some ‘Girls Gone By’ editions that have the full text, replacing my abridged Armada editions, many of which were falling to pieces due to having been read so many times.

‘Strangers at Witchend is 18th in the series, and it turns out that the Armada edition of this was not abridged, but the GG...