The House on the Brink

by John Gordon

Published 25 March 1982
The House on the Brink is set on the bleak, beautiful flat Wash, in East Anglia, and concerns King John's treasure, lost in the waters of the Wash in the 13th century. But now a frightening 'guardian' (or is it just a tree stump?) has hauled itself out of the mud, and is sliding itself slowly over the dunes and into the town ...