Amanda Thomsett is now in the Fourth Form at Drearcliff Grange School and she has been chosen to compete in the Great Game, in which teams from each of a number of special schools compete to find hidden objects in London. After recovering enough of the objects to win the game and restore the pride of the school, she is tricked out of her find and instead the school loses. Amy and her teammates are bitterly disappointed, but not more so than their schoolmates, who show their disdain in various ways. Although this is a difficult time for Amy, she has only just begun to face a hard year, particularly when the Broken Doll begins appearing in her dreams and then in real life…. This is a sequel to Kim Newman’s “The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School,” and carries on the combination of genres that he displayed so well in that book - horror tropes and British girls’ school fiction, in this case set between the Wars. There are a huge number of characters in the book, which can be confusing because all of the school girls have their given names, nicknames and sometimes other monikers too, but fortunately only a handful of them are really central to the story and those are easy to keep straight. Mr. Newman also throws in references to some of his other work, in particular the Diogenes Club stories, but I don’t think the reader has to be familiar with those tales to get this one. Probably reading “The Secrets of….” first would be sensible, however; and I suspect, with so many characters left unexplored, we may see a third volume one day. Recommended. ( )