The Time Machine — Crestfield Road Book Three

Madam Chennais is fading. The ghost who has lived in the walls of Crestfield Road for a hundred and forty years is becoming less solid, less present, less here.

The only thing that can save her is music. When the right melody is played on the right piano by the right hands, the room fills with memory — vivid, immersive, real. The children can see Madam Chennais's past: Paris, North Africa, the Gold Coast, a ship across the Atlantic, and a house on an ordinary street.

But memories carried alone wear thin. And the deepest ones cost the most to share.

The Time Machine is the final book in the Crestfield Road Books — a story about what keeps us here, and what it means to be truly known. For readers aged 8–12.