Bell House

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Another sweeping novel of power & compassion from this exceptional writer. Madeleine Horrocks wanted nothing more than to be famous. Pretty & outspoken she often alarmed her best friend Amy by expressing doubts
- about parents teachers & most of all religion which according to their strict 1950s Catholic upbringing in Rivington Cross seemed certain Amy thought to send them both to Hell. What after all was wrong with being a Protestant Madeleine would ask? Or a Jew? The good-looking boy they both noticed on their way to school was it was rumoured Jewish
- his family having fled from Poland at the beginning of the war. Father Sheahan the whiskey-soaked priest from the local church had discovered that his secret past was catching up with him & went in fear of his life. Amy too had a secret
- a secret which caused her to visit the Bell House an ancient charnel house outside the village. As they grow up this place of death becomes a meeting place for the friends who have to learn that differences in religion can cause unexpected heartache.