Set in Stone - Softcover

Newbery, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099451336 ISBN 13: 9780099451334

Publisher: Definitions, 2007

Synopsis

When Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the Farrow family at Fourwinds, their majestic home, little does he expect to come across such a web of secrets and lies. His two tutees are as different as chalk and cheese - the beautiful younger sister Marianne, full of flightiness and nervous imagination, and Juliana, controlled and sad. With their governess, Charlotte Agnew, Samuel begins to uncover slowly the horrifying truth behind Juliana's sadness and Marianne's emotional fragility. Their discoveries change their perception of life at Fourwinds for ever and none of their lives will ever be the same again. With her usual brilliance and ease, Linda Newbery has written a haunting and faultlessly plotted novel with characters that leap of the page and stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.

About this title

About the Author

As a child Linda Newbery was a secret writer, filling exercise books with stories which she hid in her wardrobe. Now she is a published author of over forty books, mainly children's and teenage fiction. She has been shortlisted for many prestigious literary prizes and has won the Costa children's book award.
Linda lives in an Oxfordshire village and enjoys yoga, gardening, walking and the cinema.

From the Back Cover

When naïve and impressionable artist, Samuel Godwin, accepts the position of tutor to the daughters of wealthy Ernest Farrow, he does not suspect that he s walking into a web of deception. He is drawn into the lives of the three young women who live at Fourwinds: Charlotte Agnew, the governess; demure Juliana, the elder daughter; and her passionate and wilful younger sister, Marianne, who intrigues Samuel to the point of obsession.

And it is not just the people who entrance Samuel. The house, Fourwinds, holds mysteries of its own. What lies behind the disappearance of the West Wind carving and the gifted sculptor who created it? Soon Samuel and Charlotte start to uncover horrifying and dangerous secrets . . .

This thrilling novel, set in the late nineteenth century, will hold you in its grip until the very last page.

Wonderful descriptions . . . Newbery writes with grace and immediacy Daily Telegraph

Edition details

• Publisher: Definitions
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099451336
• ISBN 13: 9780099451334
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368