Author

Publication

2004 - Harcourt, Orlando, Florida

Language

English

Word Count

92,250 words, Guess

Page Count

369 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Description

Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson, as a young boy in Mawson, Australia, learns how to open the secret drawer in his mother's room. There he finds a manuscript, and from the moment his mother catches him in the act, Gerard Freeman's life is irrevocably changed. What is the invisible, ever-present threat from which his mother strives so obsessively to protect him? And why should stories written a century ago entwine themselves ever more closely around events in his own life?

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Genres

  • Fiction

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