The Wayward Girls by Amanda Mason

Then - it's 1976. Lou (Lucia) and her sister Bee (Bianca) have moved into a rented farm in the middle of nowhere with their parents, and their siblings Dan (Dante) who is older and Flor (Florian) and Anto (Antonella) who are younger. Their Dad, Joe, has to leave to work, and their Mum, Cathy, is left bringing up all the children and home schooling them. When mysterious things start happening at the Farm - strange noises, marbles appearing from nowhere, things disappearing and re-appearing, the story becomes of national interest. As well as the press interest, psychic researchers move into the Farm to try and find out what is occurring, and eventually write a book on the occurrences.

Now. Lou - now called Lucy, is called back to the Farm of her childhood by the daughter of one of the phychic researchers she met as a child, and two of her colleagues. They are reviewing the case to see if there is a further book to be written. Lou wants no part of this, but her mother, Cathy, insists. Cathy is by now in a home, and suffering from slight dementia, but wants to know what the original investigation missed.

The story is told skipping between the two time frames, with a couple of chapters at the end set in both. The settings is beautifully described and you can see the deserted spooky Farmhouse, and the strange things going on in the house.

This is 'edge of your seat' reading, and you can't put it down until you find out what really happened in the summer of 1976. An excellent story, well worth reading - with all the lights on!