# Starlight

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- Book: [Starlight](https://www.bookquiver.com/stella-gibbons/starlight) ([Starlight.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stella-gibbons/starlight.md))
- Authors: [Stella Gibbons](https://www.bookquiver.com/stella-gibbons)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9952-869-2
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2011-08-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their quiet lives are thrown into confusion when a new landlord takes over, a dreaded and unscrupulous 'rackman'. He installs his wife in part of the cottages in the hope that there she will recover from an unspecified malady. With a mounting sense of fear, Gladys and Annie become convinced she is possessed by an evil spirit...