LEO POSSESSED

by Dilys Owen ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 13, 1979

When a fatherless family of four moves into their late greataunt's old house, 13-year-old Leonora and her younger brother Rafe begin to hear crying in the attic at 3:10 a.m. Little Peta has matter-of-fact conversations with a little girl who says it's her older sister Etty crying. Leo, puzzled, sees young-lady Etty run off happily with a young man; but in another vision she sees Etty die at age five. The answer is that the grown-up ghost is only a would-have-been, but she's real enough to try desperately to take over Leo's body so that she and her young man can live for real. Owen tries to round out this run-of-the-attic ghost story by making Leo jealous of her mother's new boyfriend and upcoming marriage--and by tying this in with Leo's new surge of life after her narrow escape from Etty--but that just adds another unoriginal layer to the first.

Pub Date: April 13, 1979

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1979

Categories: FICTION