The Haunting of Bellamy 4

The Messenger

by Monica Dickens

It is October but, despite cold and rainy weather, life at the Wood Briar Hotel is busy. With school being in full swing and her weekends occupied by helping her parents at the guesthouse, Rose has her hands full. Things get even busier and Rose's life more exciting when a touring theatre group visits the area and decides to stay at the Wood Briar. Rose becomes friends with fascinating actors and dancers and for some time she forgets about the Great Gray Horse and his world.

But Favour, the splendid ancient horse, summons her again for a new and enthralling mission. Rose must gather all the clues and find out what happened in the mysterious Room 4 of the Bellamy Hospital in order to protect the innocent patients from the spell of the happenings of the past.

Will Rose be able to solve the terrible mystery? Will she escape the dangers that await her in the magical world? Will her double life go unnoticed at school?

In The Haunting of Bellamy 4 , third part of The Messenger series, Rose's adventures in both magical and everyday world become even more captivating as she learns to overcome some of her fears.

Genres: Fantasy

Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

From the publisher: MONICA DICKENS, born in 1915, was brought up in London and was the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Her mother's German origins and her Catholicism gave her the detached eye of an outsider; at St Paul's Girls' School she was under occupied and rebellious. After drama school she was a debutante before working as a cook. One Pair of Hands (1939), her first book, described life in the kitchens of Kensington. It was the first of a group of semi autobiographies of which Mariana (1940), technically a novel, was one. 'My aim is to entertain rather than instruct,' she wrote. 'I want readers to recognise life in my books.' In 1951 Monica Dickens married a US naval officer, Roy Stratton, moved to America and adopted two daughters. An extremely popular writer, she involved herself in, and wrote about, good causes such as the Samaritans. After her husband died she lived in a cottage in rural Berkshire, dying there in 1992.
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Reviews

[Clare Snow]

I was obsessed with this series when I was a kid. I rode horses, and I was so sad they never whisked me away to strange places...

[Donna Nicks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh my god! This is a book I read when I was like, eight or nine years old! A kid in my class had a story about horses and all of a sudden I got a flashback to this - like, boom, really remember it vividly.
Cool story. Supernatural creepy stuff. Nice.

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as the first two.