Sugar Hall
Publisher: Seren; Seren Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781781721445; 9781781721438
Subjects: First loves; Fiction; Farms; Families; Fame; LITERARY CRITICISM; European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; FICTION; Ghost
Description: It's Easter 1955, as Lilia scrapes the ice from the inside of the windows, and the rust from the locks she knows there are pasts that lurk with the moths in the folds of the drapes at Sugar Hall that she cannot reach. Mouldering in the English border countryside the red gardens of Sugar Hall hold a secret, and as Britain waits for its last hanging, Lilia and her children must confront a history that has been buried but not forgotten. Based on the stories of the Black Boy that surround Littledean Hall in the Forest of Dean, this is a superbly chilling ghost story from Tiffany Murray.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; Also by Tiffany Murray; Title Page; Dedication; Quotes; 1. Sunday, Easter Holidays, 1955, in Grandfather Sugar's House; 2. Lilia Sugar Stops to Think; 3. Dieter Writes Two Letters; 4. Mr John Phelps Helps; 5. The Shirt; 6. Lilia Digs; 7. A Murder; 8. John Phelps' Secret; 9. Dachkammer; 10. Maybug; 11. The Hunt; 12. A Hammer, a Fruitcake, a Cake Knife, Tin Snips and a Metal File; 13. Awakenings; 14. Saskia's Party; 15. A Trial; 16. The Snoopers; 17. A Visitor; 18. Strong Black Coffee; 19. Thunder; 20. The Lepidopterist; 21. Doctor Portman's Orders; 22. A Midnight Feast.; title: 23. Fire Lantern24. Set Them Free; 25. Saskia Says Goodbye; 26. A Gift; 27. The River; 28. Against the Clock; 29. The Cow; 30. July 13th, 1955, 7:00 BST; 31. July 13th, 8:50 BST; 32. Up, Up, in Our Air Balloon!; 33. A Late Autumn Auction; 34. Epilogue, September 12th, 1965; Acknowledgements; Advertisement; Copyright.