Book description
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.
IAN BECK
is a familiar name to the Doubleday/Corgi lists with his previous
successful picture books. A freelance illustrator for over twenty years
(including such notable artwork as the record cover for Elton John's
Yellow Brick Road
album), Ian turned to writing and illustrating children's books on the
birth of his own first child.
