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White Crow

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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
(P)2004 Orion Publishing Group.Ltd

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
Author Marcus Sedgwick
Narrator Teresa Gallagher
Duration 5 hours
Release Date
ISBN 9781409124351
Format Audiobook
Publisher Hachette Children's Group
Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers
Availability AU, GB, IE

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