Book description
A little girl called Alice. A deaf-mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering
white who says she is the immaculate conception. And Alice can suddenly
hear and speak, and she can perform miracles. Soon the site of the
visitation, beneath an ancient oak tree, has become a shrine, a holy
place for thousands of pilgrims. But Alice is no longer the guileless
child overwhelmed by her new saintliness. She has become the agent of
something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries old. Innocence and
evil have become one. Remember with fear...
James Herbert is not just Britain's number one bestselling writer of
chiller fiction, a position he has held ever since publication of his
first novel, but is also one of our greatest popular novelists, whose
books are sold in thirty-three foreign languages, including Russian
and Chinese. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his twenty-three
novels have sold more than forty-eight million copies worldwide.
