Book description
When Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with
the Farrow family at Fourwinds, their majestic home, little does he
expect to come across such a web of secrets and lies. His two tutees
are as different as chalk and cheese - the beautiful younger sister
Marianne, full of flightiness and nervous imagination, and Juliana,
controlled and sad. With their governess, Charlotte Agnew, Samuel
begins to uncover slowly the horrifying truth behind Juliana's sadness
and Marianne's emotional fragility. Their discoveries change their
perception of life at Fourwinds for ever and none of their lives will
ever be the same again.
With her usual brilliance and ease, Linda Newbery has written a
haunting and faultlessly plotted novel with characters that leap of
the page and stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.
Linda Newbery is the author of over twenty books for children and
young adults, and lives in Northamptonshire with her husband and three
cats.
