Grinny

Paperback | 1 August 1996

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Tim and Beth have never heard of their Great Aunt Emma before, so they are shocked when she suddenly appears, grinning, on their doorstep. Soon they make a horrifying discovery: this old woman is as dangerous as a time-bomb, and she has a fearful task to perform, which involves them.

Industry Reviews

Nicholas Fisk's scenarios for alien invasion aren't unusually bizarre, but they do have a kind of horrible conviction which often slips into just plain horror. If the tiny, drifting particles of Trillions (KR, 1973) were a little too abstract, this wave of invaders is as homey as Great Aunt Emma, a sweet little old lady who comes to visit, asks a lot of questions and from time to time makes mistakes that reveal the ways in which she is not quite human. It takes the fierce, prescient hatred of nine year-old Beth and the clear-eyed observation of her older brother (who records Aunt Emma's quirks in his diary) to convince the "Old lady" that these humans are "not suitable" for conquest; her transformation from a humorous eccentric to a diabolical robot - which spurs the children's decision to conquer her by emotional and other tortures - is subtly frightening. And the children have substantial, well-differentiated personalities not usually encountered in genre sci fi. (Kirkus Reviews)

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