My Friend Walter
Michael Morpurgo2001

‘I never in my life betrayed my country. They wronged me by my death and such a wrong should be righted.’ Bess Throckmorton discovers she is descended from Sir Walter Raleigh, daring adventurer and favourite courtier of Queen Elizabeth I. She visits the Bloody Tower in London, curious to see where he was imprisoned. There, she is amazed to find her ancestor’s ghost waiting for her…