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Three teenagers meet up by chance on a day of deep snow at a deserted castle in a remote part of East Anglia. They are trespassing in the castle grounds in order to go sledging. The three main characters are all at odds with their families for various reasons. Emily, feisty and argumentative is simply bored. Simon comes from a large dysfunctional family. Marcus from a town some miles distant is imaginative and enthusiastic but has some strange and disturbing characteristics that suggest all is not what it seems with him. The three of them manage to get inside the castle and decide to spend a night there. They become drawn into its historical and ghostly past but in the morning they split up fractiously and return home. However, Emily and Simon discover that Marcus has not gone home and is continuing to camp out. When his father is spied lurking outside the grounds, they start to prepare the defences of the castle spurred on by Marcus's story that his father has beaten him up. The police arrive and a full-scale siege develops. Beginning as a backdrop to a winter game, the castle becomes ever more alive to the teenagers and the siege becomes an actuality. The final confrontation is
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"A gripping novel of real originality . . . The careful setting-up, subtle delineation of character, meticulous observation of the castle itself - in some ways the story's main character - and the gradual increase in the pace and tension of this riveting narrative mark this as a novel of real skill and technique" (Carousel)
"Packed with suspense and palpable tension . . . This compelling thriller is impossible to put down" (The Bookseller)
"A brilliant book, evocatively written and full of sinister suspense" (BBC Parenting)
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"Packed with suspense and palpable tension . . . This compelling thriller is impossible to put down" (The Bookseller)
"A brilliant book, evocatively written and full of sinister suspense" (BBC Parenting)
A powerful book with a dramatic twist, from the bestselling author of the Bartimaeus sequence.
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- PublisherRed Fox
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0099439549
- ISBN 13 9780099439547
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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