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Magpie Lane: the most chilling and twisty read of 2020!
β Scribed by Lucy Atkins
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 192 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ASIN
- B07SD56T2W
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers. As Dee looks back over her time in the Masterβs Lodging - an eerie and ancient house - a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost mute, seeing ghosts, grieving her dead mother.
But is Dee telling the whole story? Is her growing friendship with the eccentric house historian, Linklater, any cause for concern? And most of all, why was Felicity silent?
Roaming Oxfordβs secret passages and hidden graveyards,Magpie Laneexplores the true meaning of family - and what it is to be denied one.
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