The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited: An Australian Fugue Novel by Ruth Skilbeck.

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“With an intriguing premise, this novel brings Irish history vividly to life, told with an arresting voice through the eyes of a 15-year-old girl.”– ERINA REDDAN author of Deep in the Forest and The Serpent’s Skin.

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 Skilbeckwill 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. But what is haunting the house? And what are the mysterious disappearing flames Roxy sees on the peat bog? Will she uncover the mystery of the girls who lived there before?

Each of the novels in Ruth Skilbeck's Australian Fugue series can be read as a standalone novel.

Read as a series, the novels proceed through recursion, going back in time, with The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited also moving forward decades in its ending.

Edition: First Edition; Series Edition

ISBN: 9780645194128 Hardback (case bound ) 218 pages (Published 10 September 2025)

Publisher: Borderstream Books

Place of publication: Newcomb, 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