
The bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club hit The Cold Season returns with a chilling Victorian mystery
- where superstition & myth bleed into real life with tragic consequences Pretty Lizzie Higgs is gone burned to death on her own hearth
- but was she really a changeling as her husband insists? Albie Mirralls met his cousin only once in 1851 within the grand glass arches of the Crystal Palace but unable to countenance the rumours that surround her murder he leaves his young wife in London & travels to Halfoak a village steeped in superstition Albie begins to look into Lizzie's death but in this place where the old tales hold sway & the ' Hidden People' supposedly roam answers are slippery & further tragedy is just a step away ' This is an intriguing & unsettling scenario Littlewood's descriptions are picturesque & her prose convincingly dated & beautifully lyrical'
- Sunday Express