Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death

core novel 2014 Goth Girl

Record

First published	2014
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.08 (2,002 ratings, collected 2026-10-18)
First-edition ISBN	9780230759824
Internal chronology	2

Synopsis

Preparations for the Ghastly-Gorm Garden Party and bake-off are under way. Celebrity cooks are arriving at the Hall for the big event and, true to form, Maltravers, the indoor gamekeeper, is acting suspiciously, very suspiciously. Elsewhere at Ghastly-Gorm, Ada's wardrobe-dwelling lady's maid, Marylebone, has received a marriage proposal. Ada vows to aid the course of true love, and to find out what Maltravers is up to, but amid all this activity everyone, including her father, appears to have forgotten her birthday. The second Goth Girl book, packed with Chris Riddell's black-and-white illustrations.

Where it sits

• Universe: Goth Girl
• Series: Goth Girl core; position 2 of 5 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Chris Riddell

Notes

• From the series record (Goth Girl): Chris Riddell's illustrated gothic comedies about Ada Goth of Ghastly-Gorm Hall.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

• Publication order, within the series Goth Girl: position 2 of 5: previous Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse (2013) · next Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright (2015)
• Internal chronology, within Goth Girl: position 2 of 4: previous Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse (2013) · next Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright (2015)

Sources

• Toppsta (series listing)
• Our Mythical Childhood survey (University of Warsaw)
• Ajax Public Library catalogue (Macmillan first edition)
• Macmillan Children's Books (publisher description, via the Summer Reading Challenge)

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