Author(s): Ian Beck
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 288
Publisher: Random House Children's Publishers UK
Language: English
Date Published: 2012-10-25
Dimensions: 126 x 178 x 18mm
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
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Illustrations: B+W chapter heads t/o

Flame-haired Charity Delafield has grown up in a vast, isolated house - most of which she is forbidden to explore - by her strict, cold father. With only her kindly nurse, Rose, and her cat Mr Tompkins for company, she knows very little of the outside world - or of her own family's shadowy past. What she does know is that she is NEVER to go outside unsupervised. And she is NEVER to over-excite herself, because of the mysterious 'condition' that she has been told she suffers from.

But Charity has a secret of her own. All her life, she has had the same strange dream - a dream of a dark corridor, hidden somewhere in the house. Then, one day, Charity stumbles across the corridor. It leads to a door . . . and suddenly she realises things are not quite what they seem.