Grinny Quotes

“Everybody is surprised when Great Aunt Emma, who nobody’s ever heard of, comes to stay, but Tim and Beth start becoming more and more alarmed at her behaviour and must find the truth behind her.”

“I felt myself turning pink at this ridiculous question and mumbled, ‘Eleven. Nearly twelve.’ Sure enough, Beth said, ‘But he’s old enough to shave, Aunt Emma!’ in her Sweet Little Girl voice and everyone began to say What shave, when shave, why shave, who shave, how shave, just as Beth intended.”

“Great Aunt Emma is no ordinary old lady. But why is she so strange? For a start, she just appeared, grinning, on the doorstep, as if from nowhere.”

“Soon Tim and Beth start noticing more and more odd things about the great-aunt they’ve nicknamed ‘Grinny.’ And before long, they make a horrifying discovery. ”

“She isn’t even human, she’s as dangerous as a time-bomb and she has a fearful task to perform which involves them…”

“A series of diary entries by Tim after Great Aunt Emma comes to stay and there’s a slow mounting sense of unease as things start to become first unusual tending towards creepy and then downright scary, leading to an actually quite horrific final scene.”

“The sinister Great Aunt Emma, from whose nickname the book’s title is derived, is actually a malevolent alien. And only the snotty but switched-on kids of the Carpenter household are clever enough to defeat her.”

‘If you mean that - but of course you don’t - you are greatly mistaken,’ said Grinny. ‘We will need a great number of things in a very short space of time if we are to survive in your planet. Our own resources will be quite inadequate.”

“My diary was a Christmas present, a big bound book in blue Morocco leather with gold-edged leaves. I remember how excited and pleased I was when I first started writing in it and thinking how handy it was that Aunt Emma had come just at the right time.”

“Why have Mum and Dad never mentioned her before—after all, she is supposed to be Granny’s sister, isn’t she?”