White Crow

Author Marcus Sedgwick
Narrator Teresa Gallagher
Publisher Hachette Children's Group
Publish Date 1 July 2010
Run Time 5 hours
Format Audio
Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers.

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What to expect

It's summer. Rebecca is an unwilling visitor to Winterfold - taken from the buzz of London and her friends and what she thinks is the start of a promising romance. Ferelith already lives in Winterfold - it's a place that doesn't like to let you go, and she knows it inside out - the beach, the crumbling cliff paths, the village streets, the woods, the deserted churches and ruined graveyards, year by year being swallowed by the sea. Against her better judgement, Rebecca and Ferelith become friends, and during that long, hot, claustrophobic summer they discover more about each other and about Winterfold than either of them really want to, uncovering frightening secrets that would be best left long forgotten.

Interwoven with Rebecca and Ferelith's stories is that of the seventeenth century Rector and Dr Barrieux, master of Winterfold Hall, whose bizarre and bloody experiments into the after-life might make angels weep, and the devil crow.

Read by Teresa Gallagher
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Critics Review

an original and exceptional novel of tragedy, angels, devils and friendship

THE BOOKSELLER

The narrative is fast paced and dark. The characterisation of the two protagonists is powerful

BOOKS FOR KEEPS

This may be [Sedgwick's] most ambitious book yet ... explores religion, death, friendship, truth and love with an intensity that confident older readers will immerse themselves in

DAILY MAIL

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