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What the Knocker-Upper Woke Up Kindle Edition

by Sarah J Maxwell (Author), Wendy Wilson (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

Old London

Sideways. A stinking, ghostly hell, where time stalls and torment is endless. Among the blackened bones of a burned Victorian asylum, something stirs.

Clutching her pea-shooter, the fate of Alice, the Knocker-Upper, is sealed. Now, she’s Sideways, and fading to grey.

London, today

In her grandfather’s old clock shop in a forgotten corner of London, Tess smells something wrong. Feels it in the ticking of her heart.

When she stumbles Sideways and meets Alice, Tess knows life may not work out the way she planned.

While fighting her own demons, is Tess of the Clock Shop the one to destroy evil? What sacrifices will she have to make along the way?

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  1. Print length
    254 pages
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  4. Publication date
    October 10, 2022
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BF616XHS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Whisper Press
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 10, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6.7 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 254 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1739594329
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Sarah J Maxwell

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South Londoner, Sarah, always dreamed of becoming a writer and typed her first short stories on a manual machine. Now living in Tasmania with her family, 2 dogs and cat, her dream has been realised. 'Finding Billy' was her debut novella and was originally released as 'Billy Lemonade'. She graduated from university at aged 31 with a First Class degree in English with Creative Writing.

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A Must-Read For Enjoyers Of Spooky Stories
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A Must-Read For Enjoyers Of Spooky Stories
Set in London, this fantasy mystery from Sarah J. Maxell is told in descriptive detail with an imaginative world that is both interesting and terrifying. When Tess's little brother disappears one morning while they're visiting their clock-maker grandfather, she ventures to an area behind his clock shop that has always felt strange and off-putting to Tess. What she had been sensing is Sideways, an unseen, gray world that pulls victims into it to feed the Sideways Lady. An entity born from a fire that ravaged a mental asylum many years ago, the Sideways Lady is attracted to shiny things and children, one of whom woke her up. Alice, a knocker-upper in Victorian London times, has been trapped in Sideways for centuries and helps Tess navigate it to find and save her brother. Changed by her visit to the horrifying place, Tess vows to defeat the Sideways Lady in a plan that is both brave and heartbreaking. A must-read for anyone who enjoys spooky stories, interesting characters, and well-written works.
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  • K.M. Allan
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Read For Enjoyers Of Spooky Stories
    Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2022
    Set in London, this fantasy mystery from Sarah J. Maxell is told in descriptive detail with an imaginative world that is both interesting and terrifying. When Tess's little brother disappears one morning while they're visiting their clock-maker grandfather, she ventures to an area behind his clock shop that has always felt strange and off-putting to Tess. What she had been sensing is Sideways, an unseen, gray world that pulls victims into it to feed the Sideways Lady. An entity born from a fire that ravaged a mental asylum many years ago, the Sideways Lady is attracted to shiny things and children, one of whom woke her up. Alice, a knocker-upper in Victorian London times, has been trapped in Sideways for centuries and helps Tess navigate it to find and save her brother. Changed by her visit to the horrifying place, Tess vows to defeat the Sideways Lady in a plan that is both brave and heartbreaking. A must-read for anyone who enjoys spooky stories, interesting characters, and well-written works.
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    K.M. Allan
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    A Must-Read For Enjoyers Of Spooky Stories

    Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2022
    Set in London, this fantasy mystery from Sarah J. Maxell is told in descriptive detail with an imaginative world that is both interesting and terrifying. When Tess's little brother disappears one morning while they're visiting their clock-maker grandfather, she ventures to an area behind his clock shop that has always felt strange and off-putting to Tess. What she had been sensing is Sideways, an unseen, gray world that pulls victims into it to feed the Sideways Lady. An entity born from a fire that ravaged a mental asylum many years ago, the Sideways Lady is attracted to shiny things and children, one of whom woke her up. Alice, a knocker-upper in Victorian London times, has been trapped in Sideways for centuries and helps Tess navigate it to find and save her brother. Changed by her visit to the horrifying place, Tess vows to defeat the Sideways Lady in a plan that is both brave and heartbreaking. A must-read for anyone who enjoys spooky stories, interesting characters, and well-written works.
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  • Bette
    5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2022
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    There is a part of all of us that remains asleep, unwilling to look up and see the sufferings we inadvertently cause with our self absorbed thoughts, nurture with our general laziness, encourage with our own careless ignorance of deeper truths and realities that intuitively we may already know but have forgotten ( or chosen to forget ). Somewhere off to the side of all of us is a stinking, dark, flea infested monster of a thing made of warm rags and ignorance that threatens to draw us nearer towards it, absorb us forever in a perpetual sleep of soulless, vengeful, rotten nothingness.
    Doesn’t sound like your best idea for an entertaining read?..Think again!!

    Sarah Maxwell, with her incredible story telling skills, immediately slides us right up besides this sleeping sideways creature and points at it. When we’re not even half ways done with the shock of seeing this dangerous monster asleep so close to us, she dares to wake it up!
    Sideways, the place, slumps on the site of an old burnt down asylum somewhere in London, where fuelled by ghosts of atrocities past and fed by the fooleries and selfishness of the present, it has become an incubator for a sleeping monster. It’s a monster not everyone can see, and even to those that can, it looks differently depending how they chose to see it. Martin Turner sees a thrill of golden sovereigns in the flames as it burns and is consumed forever by his own foolishness, and he is only one of many. Those who see only what they want for themselves are lost, those who ignore the whispers foretelling danger and close their eyes to the warning signs are absorbed in its flames and dark fetid walls never to be seen again.
    Smelly Mary doesn’t ignore it. She can ignore the smell of her own stinking armpits and many other things but not this. She sees it, hears it, and wants to help. Smelly Mary, disgusting as she is, arrives on the scene like a breath of fresh air - bringing hope and the possibility of something better.
    Sarah Maxwell is a storytelling genius. She paints, rather than writes, with layer upon layer of colours and smells and tastes and feelings and sounds that wrap you up inside a world that you can’t escape from even if you want to ( and sometimes you really will want to )!

    When you stop reading for a moment, to go to the toilet or answer the doorbell or just glimpse at something go by outside the window, the world of What the Knocker Upper Woke Up calls you back like the lure of an incredible dream that seems strangely more important and more real than real life. Like all the best fictional stories that have ever been written, What the Knocker upper Woke Up manages to grasp onto some profound truths about life and being human, and then whispers them beautifully back to you as a reader through the unfolding stories within its pages. She whispers things you may already know ( but have chosen to forget) back to you in a way that at once awakens and yet soothes something in our soul.
    This is a profound book, told in a way that is as entertaining as it is scary, as amusing as it is dark, and as fantastic as it is true.

    I cannot recommend you read it without knowing that the knocker upper might be waking up more than you bargained on. Go get it!
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  • Karen Coward
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another riveting read from this amazing author!
    Reviewed in Australia on October 11, 2023
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    Another riveting read from this amazing author!

    A moving, emotive novel that draws you into another world.
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  • Zoe Danks
    4.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely spellbinding!
    Reviewed in Australia on January 22, 2024
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    This book is dark and twisty. Not as heartbreaking as her other book, Billy Lemonade, but worth persevering with. Couldn’t put it down!
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  • Young adult fiction fan
    5.0 out of 5 stars The lure of the unknown
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2022
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    I really enjoyed how this clever mystery drew me in so quickly and I found it very hard to put it down. Tess is really relatable and there's no way i could resist the lure of a terrifying abandoned asylum either, especially one that swallows up children! There are some lovely gross horror bits that lift it into the age 11-14 category and the suffocating scenery really gets into your head without being too freaky. I would definitely recommend this to young teens and you should also buy the excellent Billy Lemonade by the same writer.
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  • andrew beman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Vivid characters in a wonderfully told story
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2022
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    Every character is brought vividly to life in a way that you can see and feel their presence. A journey to a world that you do not want to believe in but close enough to home to make it real. I recommend this book to everyone.
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