The Maker of Monsters | 
pickLorraine Gregory‘s standalone dark fantasy novel for children aged 9+ has a believable central character who needs to overcome his fears and his relationship with Tingle and Sherman and desperation for love from Lord Macawber is sweet without ever being sickly. However the story is a little episodic and dependent on sudden revelations to get characters out of trouble and there‘s a twist at the end that I think could have been hints at earlier.
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