Whispers
By: by Rosie Goodwin
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780755353934; 9780755353941; 9781472219732
Subjects: Secrecy; Household employees; Fiction
Description: Sometimes the past really does come back to haunt you ... The old manor house has stood empty for years, left to rot since the last master of the Fenton family died. Until Jess Beddows steps inside, and feels she has come home. Against her family's wishes, she buys the house, promising to bring it back to life. Upstairs, in an attic room left untouched for a century or more, she finds a journal. It holds the heartbreaking tale of Martha, and of the cruel, entangled lives of the house's servants and masters nearly two hundred years before. As Jess is drawn into their tragedy, the whispers begin. Before long, everything she loves will be threatened by violent emotion and long-kept secrets. Can she survive the echoes from the past?