num_pages: 177
description: From the internationally bestselling award-winning crime writer Minette Walters The Cellar is a harrowing compulsively readable novel about a family of African immigrants the Songolis and the dark secret they keep hidden in the depths of their seemingly respectable British home.On the day Mr. and Mrs. Songolis young son fails to come home from school fourteen-year-old Munas fortunes change for the better. Until then her bedroom was a dank windowless cellar her activities confined to cooking and cleaning. Over the years she had grown used to being abused by the Songoli familyto being their slave.Now that Scotland Yard has swarmed the Songoli house to investigate the disappearance of the son Muna is given a real bedroom real clothing and treated at least nominally as a daughter. But her world remains confined. She is not allowed to go outside doesnt know how to read or write and cannot speak English. At least thats what the Songolis believe. Before long it becomes clear that young Muna is far clevererand her plans more terrifyingthan the Songolis or anyone else can ever imagine.
language: English
title: The Cellar
publisher: Mysterious Press