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A dark house filled with darker secrets
Winter 1954 and in a dilapidated apartment in Brooklyn Sam Cooper realises that she has nothing left Her mother is dead she has no prospects and she cannot afford the rent But as she goes through her mothers things Sam finds a stack of hidden letters that reveal a family and an inheritance that she never knew she had three thousand miles away in Yorkshire
Begars Abbey is a crumbling pile inhabited only by Sams crippled grandmother Lady Cooper a housekeeper and a handful of servants Sam cannot understand why her mother kept its very existence a secret but her diaries offer a glimpse of a young girl growing increasingly terrified As is Sam herself
Built on the foundations of an old convent Begars moves and sings with the biting wind Her grandmother cannot speak and a shadowy woman moves along the corridors at night For there are dark places in the hidden tunnels beneath Begars And they will not give up their secrets easily
An inventive lavish twisty ghost story that will keep you guessing until the very end Atmospheric and hugely enjoyable ALISON LITTLEWOOD author of Mistletoe
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