Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse

core novel 2013 Goth Girl

Record

First published	2013
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.00 (4,109 ratings, collected 2026-10-18)
First-edition ISBN	9780230759800
Internal chronology	1

Synopsis

Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in the enormous Ghastly-Gorm Hall, and Lord Goth believes that children should be heard and not seen, so Ada has to wear large clumpy boots so that he can always hear her coming. This makes it hard for her to make friends and, if she is honest, she is rather lonely. Then one day William and Emily Cabbage come to stay at the house, and together with a ghostly mouse called Ishmael they and Ada begin to unravel a dastardly plot that Maltravers, the mysterious indoor gamekeeper, is hatching; Ada and her friends must work together to foil him before it is too late. Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award.

Where it sits

• Universe: Goth Girl
• Series: Goth Girl core; position 1 of 5 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Chris Riddell

Awards (verified)

• Costa Book Awards (Children's Book), 2013: won

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 1 of 5: next Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death (2014)
• Internal chronology, within Goth Girl: position 1 of 4: next Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death (2014)

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 Toppsta)

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