Judith and Mick live at the farm at New Scar House with younger sisters, parents and their grandmother. Bob and Dick live at the farm at Ravensgill with their dotty grandmother. The children go the same school and know each other, but know nothing of their familial relationship to one another - broken off 40 years before when a man died and another, suspected of his murder, disappeared.
The book begins with a letter arriving at New Scar House, prompting an immediate reply to Ravensgill. It awakens curiosity in the younger members of both families. Despite their elders' peculiar and obstinate silence, they begin to investigate ...
- ISBN10 0099752700
- ISBN13 9780099752707
- Publish Date 15 November 1990 (first published 25 June 1970)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 July 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Red Fox
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 171
- Language English