A fat, old-fashioned looking book, tucked away in the library of the Cornish hotel where Kirsty was hiding from her husband and all the violence and horror of her old life, seemed to offer her an escape. For surely she deserved better - and the book suddenly, miraculously, promised to give her all these things. Kirsty knew what had to be done, but she needed help, and with her new-found friends at the hotel she had all the help she needed. But slowly, insidiously, things started to go horribly wrong. The book seemed to take over all their lives, influencing their behaviour and leading them down bleak and terrible roads. Kirsty's past began to catch up with her, until she had to confront the worst of her fears in the darkness. Once again Gillian White introduces us to a world in which the most ordinary of happenings turn into the stuff of nightmare.
- ISBN10 0552150401
- ISBN13 9780552150408
- Publish Date 7 August 2002 (first published 18 March 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 February 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Corgi Books
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 416
- Language English