The Yellow House - Emily OGrady
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Danielle Baynes
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary, Adults
Winner of The Australian/Vogels Literary Award Even before I knew anything about Granddad Les, Wally and me sometimes dared each other to see how close to the knackery we could get. It was way out in the bottom paddock, and Dad had banned us from going further than the dam. Wally said it was because the whole paddock was haunted. He said he could see ghosts wisping in the grass like sheets blown from the washing line. But even then I knew for sure that was a lie. Ten-year-old Cub lives with her parents, older brother Cassie, and twin brother Wally on a lonely property bordering an abandoned cattle farm and knackery. Their lives are shadowed by the infamous actions of her Granddad Les in his yellow weatherboard house, just over the fence. Although Les died twelve years ago, his notoriety has grown in Cubs lifetime and the local community have ostracised the whole family. When Cubs estranged aunt Helena and cousin Tilly move next door into the yellow house, the secrets the family want to
