Lucy Beware!

Lucy Beware by Pamela Sykes, 1983. This book is the sequel to Come Back, Lucy (Mirror of Danger). Come Back, Lucy was the original title of the first book, when it was published in Britain, and Mirror of Danger is the US title. The story is set two years after the events of the first book. Orphaned Lucy has settled in nicely with her cousins since that first frightening Christmas when she lost her elderly Aunt Olive, who raised her, and she connected with Alice, the malevolent girl ghost who haunts the old Victorian house where Lucy and her cousins now live. In the previous book, Alice used Lucy’s feelings of sadness and loneliness after Aunt Olive’s death and the difficulties she had fitting in with her cousins to try to trap her in the past with her. Lucy was finally able to free herself from Alice by passing the 100th anniversary of the end of Alice’s time in the house and by finally telling her relatives the truth about Alice and how Alice manipulated her. Since that time, Lucy…