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For my final nomination, I’ll offer A Stitch In Time by Penelope Lively.
It is somewhat in the vein of the marvellous Tom’s Midnight Garden but perhaps with a darker slant.
From Amazon:
“Maria likes to be alone with her thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people. But whilst on holiday she begins to hear things that aren’t there – a swing creaking, a dog barking – and when she sees a Victorian embroidered picture, Maria feels a strange connection with the ten-year-old, Harriet, who stitched it.
But what happened to her? As Maria becomes more lost in Harriet’s world, she grows convinced that something tragic occurred…“
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