The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited

by Ruth Skilbeck.

When Roxanne and her family move into The Old Manse, a former 19th century manse in the countryside in Northern Ireland, a new chapter of exciting adventure and peril opens for the almost-thirteen year old budding writer. The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited by Ruth Skilbeck will take readers on a journey with Roxy, her family, her new friend Margy, and girls from earlier times; over three years from the conflict of the early 1970s Troubles, at home and on road trips including a near fatal van crash in a Swedish blizzard. [Back cover description]

Edition: First

Date of publication: 28 August 2025 (paperback)

ISBN: 9780645194128 Hardback 218 pages. $42.99

ISBN: 9780645194135 Paperback 218 pages. $32.99. (Preorder on Amazon now)

ISBN: 9780645194142 EBook-pdf 218 pages. $14.99

Publisher: Borderstream Books

Place of publication: Australia

Australian Fugue Series, Book 3 is also a standalone novel as are the others in Ruth’s series.

Novel, cover design and image by Ruth Skilbeck Copyright ©2025 Ruth Skilbeck

Fuller description:

When Roxanne and her family move into an old manse house in the countryside in Northern Ireland, a new chapter of exciting adventure and peril opens for the almost-thirteen year old budding writer. The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited will take readers on a journey with Roxy, her family, her new friend Margy, and girls from earlier times; over three years from the conflict of the early 1970s Troubles; riding her horse in the country; on road trips across Europe and in Ireland; to earlier times.

What is most scary is not the ghost story Roxy and her family are told about the old manse but the mysterious impacts of the traumas of war and conflict, bereavement and accidents revealed by former inhabitants of the site.

A historical coming-of-age novel of ghosts and holidays with environmental, psychological, and supernatural themes.