A good finish to the trilogy started with Earthfasts, better than the middle book. I do like dialect, especially mixed with aged english and I hope it is well researched and authentic. Sad that the author's private life has meant that all his work is shadowed. Sadder still that he caused harm to young people. ( )

Set in the years after the conclusion of Cradlefasts, when David and Keith and Nellie Jack John must work out the meaning of what exactly happened on the moor all those years ago. Whatever it was must come to a conclusion, and David’s young sister Liddy is at the heart of it ...

For a children’s book, this isn’t a particularly easy read, and you finish it having to think hard about what exactly had had happened. It’s difficult to say too much, without spoilers for the earlier books, but it’s a compelling conclusion to the trilogy.

Edited to add: discovered from reading this book that the word ’attercob’ was an old word for spider. Was racking my brains to think where I had heard this before: it’s how Bilbo teases the giant spiders in Mirkwood in The Hobbit. ( )