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The woman in the wood / Lesley Pearse.
Fifteen-year-old Maisy Mitcham and her twin brother Duncan lose their mother to an insane asylum one night in 1955. The twins are sent to their grandmother's country house, Nightingales. Cold and distant, she leaves them to their own devices, to explore and to grow. That is until the day Duncan doesn't come home from the woods. With their grandmother seeming to have little interest in her grandson's disappearance, and the police soon giving up hope, it is left to Maisy to discover the truth. And she will start with Grace Deville. A woman who lives alone in the wood, about whom rumours abound.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781405921060 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 386 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: London : Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017.
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| Subject: | Missing children > Fiction. Twins > Fiction. Hermits > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Pears | 31681010071942 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Penguin Putnam
Discover the addictive and gripping novel from the bestselling author of You'll Never See Me Again, Lesley Pearse
'A gripping novel' HELLO! Magazine
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London, 1960.
The lives of teenage twins Maisy and Duncan change forever the night their mother is taken to an asylum.
Sent to live in the New Forest with their cold-hearted grandmother, Mrs Mitcham, they feel unloved and abandoned.
And when one day Duncan doesn't come home from exploring in the forest, no one - least of all his grandmother - appears to care about his disappearance. The police, who've found the bodies of other missing boys, offer little hope of finding Duncan alive.
Yet Maisy refuses to give up.
Though she doesn't know the woods well, she knows someone who does. The strange old woman who lives at their heart . . .
Dare Maisy enlist the help of the woman in the wood?
And what will she find if she does?
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'A real page-turner, a family story that is multi-layered just as you'd expect from Lesley Pearse, who is deservedly one of the world's favourite story tellers' My Weekly
'Characters it is impossible not to care about . . . this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail
