num_pages: 368
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 Lodgingan eerie and ancient housea 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 was Felicity silent?Roaming Oxford's secret passages and hidden graveyards Magpie Lane explores the true meaning of familyand what it is to be denied one.
language: English
title: Magpie Lane
publisher: Quercus