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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Magpie Lane
Author: ATKINS LUCY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 08/07/2021
Imprint: QUERCUS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
‘The word-of-mouth success of lockdown . . . riveting, twisty, page-turning stuff’ Guardian
A ‘best books of 2020’ pick for the Guardian, the Telegraph and Good Housekeeping
‘The page turner you’ve been looking for. Sly, witty and gripping . . . I devoured it’ Naomi Alderman
‘An utter joy . . . wonderfully skilled’ Sarah Perry
‘Tender, creepy and gripping’ Sunday Times
‘Spellbinding and spooky . . . a dazzling high wire act, superbly absorbing’ Sunday Mirror
When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers.
As Dee looks back over her time in the Master’s Lodging – an eerie and ancient house – a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost mute, seeing ghosts, grieving her dead mother.
But is Dee telling the whole story? Is her growing friendship with the eccentric house historian, Linklater, any cause for concern? And most of all, why is Felicity silent?
Roaming Oxford’s secret passages and hidden graveyards, Magpie Lane explores the true
ISBN: 9781784293833
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 368