Last of the spirits (Bloomsbury Publishing)

Sam and Lizzie are freezing and hungry on the streets of Victorian London. When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins, he is rudely turned away. Months of struggle suddenly find their focus, and Sam resolves to kill the man. Huddling in a graveyard for warmth, Sam and Lizzie are horrified to see the earth around one of the tombs begin to shift, shortly followed aby the wraithlike figure of a ghostly man. He warns Sam about the future which awaits such a bitter heart, and so begins Sams journey led aby terrifying spirits through the past, present and future, after which Sam must decide whether to take the man, Scrooges, life or not.§A perfectly layered, tense and supremely satisfying twist on Dickens' A Christmas Carol, cleverly reinvented to entice a younger readership.