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A house full of history is bound to have secrets...

Ponden Hall is a centuries-old house on the Yorkshire moors, a magical place full of stories. It´s also where Trudy Heaton grew up. And where she ran away from...

Now, after the devastating loss of her husband, she is returning home with her young son, Will, who refuses to believe his father is dead.

While Trudy tries to do her best for her son, she must also attempt to build bridges with her eccentric mother. And then there is the Hall itself: fallen into disrepair but generations of lives and loves still echo in its shadows, sometimes even reaching out to the present...

A hauntingly beautiful story of love and hope, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Memory Book and The Summer of Impossible Things

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What your favourite authors are saying

´A beautiful story...written with such wisdom and kindness´ Joanna Cannon

´Spellbinding. Part love story, part gothic mystery, it promises to both thrill and delight the reader´ Mike Gayle

´A completely enthralling read. It has so many layers and they all capture your heart´ Katie Fforde

´It´s so lovely to find an author that you love´ Marian Keyes

´This book will keep you wide-eyed and awake until dawn. A rare combination of sensitive and gripping´ Carole Matthews

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"It´s a beautiful story and written with such wisdom and kindness, and it also happens to be set my most favourite part of the world! It´s incredibly smart, because like all good Gothic novels, it weaves together the past and the present and makes you realise just how much one relies on the other." Joanna Cannon bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

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Rowan Coleman lives with her husband and five children in a very full house in Hertfordshire. She juggles writing novels with raising her family. She longs to live at Ponden Hall.

She is the bestselling author of THE MEMORY BOOK, WE ARE ALL MADE OF STARS and the critically acclaimed THE SUMMER OF IMPOSSIBLE THINGS.

Find out more about Rowan at www.rowancoleman.co.uk, Facebook or Twitter: @rowancoleman.

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