This is a magical, enchanting tale, with stunning illustrations that will transport you into another world. Flame-haired Charity la Touche has grown up in a vast, isolated house - most of which she is forbidden to explore - by her strict, cold father. With only her kindly nurse, Rose, and her cat Mr Tompkins for company, she knows very little of the outside world - or of her own family's shadowy past. What she does know is that she is never to go outside unsupervised. And she is never to over-excite herself, because of the mysterious 'condition' that she has been told she suffers from. But Charity has a secret of her own. All her life, she has had the same strange dream - a dream of a dark corridor, hidden somewhere in the house. Then, one day, Charity stumbles across the corridor. It leads to a door ...and suddenly she realises things are not quite what they seem.
- ISBN10 0385618352
- ISBN13 9780385618359
- Publish Date 1 January 2099
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Doubleday Children's Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English