touch not the cat  <p><b>&apos;a comfortable chair and a mary stewart: total heaven. i&apos;d rather read her than most other authors.&apos; harriet evans</b><br /><br />ashley court: the tumbledown ancestral home of the ashley family, all blessed with &apos;the gift&apos; of being able to speak to each other without words. when bryony ashley&apos;s father dies under mysterious circumstances, his final words a cryptic warning to her, bryony returns from abroad to uncover ashley court&apos;s secrets. what did her father&apos;s message mean? what lies at the centre of the overgrown maze in the gardens? and who is trying to prevent bryony from discovering the truth?<br /><br /><i>tell bryony. the cat, it&apos;s in the cat on the pavement. the map. the letter. in the brook. tell bryony. my little bryony to be careful. danger.</i></p>