Magpie Lane

Lucy Atkins

£8.99

Roaming Oxford’s secret passages and hidden graveyards, Magpie Lane explores the true meaning of family – and what it is to be denied one.

Paperback

Crime & thriller > Fiction

ISBN: 9781784293833

Description

 

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?

Enthralling…creepy and compelling’ – The Times

Creepy, suspenseful’ – Independent

One of the most intriguing narrators since Notes on a Scandal’ – Sara Collins

Grown-up and cleverly written…a dizzying sense of uncertainty’ – Literary Review

Keeps you guessing…a real sense of menace’ – Good Housekeeping

Riveting, twisty, page-turning stuff’ – Guardian

The page turner you’ve been looking for. Sly, witty and gripping…I devoured it’ – Naomi Alderman

An utter joy…wonderfully skilled’ – Sarah Perry

Beguiling, brilliantly creepy, and an utterly compelling read’ – Claire Fuller

Tender, creepy and gripping’ – Sunday Times

Spellbinding and spooky…a dazzling high wire act, superbly absorbing’ – Sunday Mirror

 


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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm