I bought this book from a library sale in the early 90s when I was at primary school. The book would have been written around the 80s or very early 90s. It was a children’s novel.The cover was black with a portrait in the centre which was in an oval frame.I think the ghost was called Harriet and she wore a white dress in either Victorian or Edwardian style. I can’t remember if the whole book was that period, or if she was just a ghost from then.The only part I remember is her trying to kill another child by upturning a rowing boat on a pond in the garden of the house she lived in while alive.Very vague, but I hope it rings a bell for someone!
Beware of Helen... Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her ... our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend, out in the graveyard behind our home—a girl named Helen who died wi Beware of Helen... Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her ... our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend, out in the graveyard behind our home—a girl named Helen who died with her family in a mysterious fire over a hundred years ago. Now her ghost returns to lure children into the pond ... to drown! I don't want to believe in ghosts, but I've followed Heather into the graveyard and watch her talk to Helen. And I'm terrified. Not for myself, but for Heather... ...more