Book description
Footsteps in the dusk. Pale hounds howling through the night.
Hollow-eyed children pleading for his help. And, most sinister of all,
the return of an old friend, grown more powerful than ever. Daniel's
life is falling apart; then Cora, his beautiful step-sister, disappears.
He'll give anything to get her back ... but will he have the courage to
face his own demons? Patricia Elliott was born in London, but grew up
in Europe and the Far East. A voracious reader since childhood (where
she had the resources of ten different school libraries), she also made
up ghost stories to scare her friends! As an adult, she worked in
publishing in London and in a children's bookshop in New York. She now
teaches a course in children's literature at an adult education college,
and is writing further novels. She lives in Barnes with her husband and
two sons. Her first book, The Ice Boy, won the Fidler Award for a first
novel, was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award and the West Sussex
award. Her second novel, Murkmere, was longlisted for the Guardian
Children's Fiction Award.
