Linda Newbery, winner of the prestigious Costa Award for Children’s Literature, effortlessly mixes the old with the new, the past with the present, tragedy with triumph in this hauntingly beautiful novel.
Linda Newbery is the acclaimed author of At the Firefly Gate, Sisterland, The Shell House, and Set in Stone, winner of the Costa Award for children’s literature. She lives in Northamptonshire with her husband and three cats.