Tally lives in a world where your sixteenth birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation which erases your flaws, transforming you from an 'Ugly' into a 'Pretty'. She is on the eve of this event, and cannot wait for her life to change. As well as guaranteeing supermodel looks, life as a Pretty seems to revolve around having a good time.

Diana Wynne Jones at her finest -- family feuds and chaos, magic with hilarious results and some of the most original ideas ever to appear between the covers of a book.

Suze loves ghostly Jesse but fellow mediator, Paul Slater, is determined to win her heart. And Paul knows how to blast Jesse to the Great Beyond. Paul promises he won't do anything to Jesse, as long as Suze will go out with him. Suze agrees. But now she's having grave doubts: can a girl really have a future with a guy who's already dead?

Suze's new life in California is pretty cool. There are the pool parties, the new friends, and the fact that the hottest ghost in history happens to live in her bedroom. But when a screaming spirit appears at the end of her bed, Suze is thrown on to the trail of a murderer.

Suze's friend is visiting from New York. Suze wants to check out the cute guys down at the beach. Suze is hardly surprised when a fatal car accident wreaks havoc. The spirits of four high-school students are hungry for revenge. And if Suze tries to protect their target, she might find herself involved in a nasty 'accident' of her own.

Suze should be on cloud nine. She's going out with Jesse, the most gorgeous ghost of all time. But, her fellow mediator, Paul Slater, wants Suze all to himself, and he's hell-bent on making the happy couple ancient history. When creepy Paul threatens to travel back in time and stop Jesse from dying, Suze is seriously spooked.