The bell tower
By: Sarah Rayne
Edition: First world edition.
Series: A haunted house mystery; Nell West and Michael Flint haunted house story -- [bk. 6]
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Sutton, Surrey, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780727885593
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Fiction; Haunted houses; Bell towers
Description: When Nell West starts extending her Oxford antiques shop, she is not expecting to uncover strange fragments of its past: fragments that include a frightened message scribbled on old plasterwork, dated 1850 and referring to someone called Thaisa.She also uncovers a mysterious link with a village on the Dorset coast - a village with an ancient bell tower and dark memories of a piece of music known locally as Thaisa's Song. The sea is gradually encroaching on the derelict tower, but the old Glaum Bell still hangs in the lonely bell chamber and although it was silenced after an act of appalling brutality during the reign of Henry VIII, local people whisper that its chime is still occasionally heard.