She Was Afraid of Upstairs

To mark what would have been her 99th birthday I thought I'd share with you a Joan Aiken story but unfortunately there are almost no professionally read stories that I can find with this one being the sole exception and to be entirely honest with you it's not one of her best but it does allow me the opportunity to jump on the Miriam Margolyes bandwagon.

It's a tiny little tale about young girl who was, well, I'm sure you can work that out for yourself and who finds herself ill and on the move to an unexpected destination.

It's written in Aiken's typically light and chatty  manner with an ending that brings things to a crashing halt that's made all the more baffling when you realise that this was recorded in 1982 for 'Haunting Tales' a short series for children.

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