The haunting of Charity Delafield
By: Ian Beck
Publisher: Corgi Children's
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780552562065
Subjects: Magic; Secrets; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Suspense fiction; Children's stories; Thrillers (Fiction); Father and child; Growing up; Loneliness; Dreams
Description: Flame-haired Charity Delafield has grown up in a vast, isolated house - most of which she is forbidden to explore - by her strict, cold father. With only her kindly nurse, Rose, and her cat Mr Tompkins for company, she knows very little of the outside world - or of her own family's shadowy past. What she does know is that she is never to go outside unsupervised. And she is never to over-excite herself, because of the mysterious 'condition' that she has been told she suffers from. But Charity has a secret of her own. All her life, she has had the same strange dream - a dream of a dark corridor, hidden somewhere in the house. Then, one day, Charity stumbles across the corridor. It leads to a door ... and suddenly she realises things are not quite what they seem.
Notes: Originally published: 2011.