Susan Hill author of Woman in Black" is the greatest living writer of ghost stories & here is a perfect chiller: a story of two damaged children filled with unease the supernatural & horror. The remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn lost & damp even in the height of summer. At Iyot Lock a large decaying house two young cousins Leonora & Edward are parked for the summer with their ageing spinster aunt & her cruel housekeeper. At first the unpleasantness & petty meannesses seem simply unpleasant calculated to destroy Edward's equanimity. But when spoilt Leonora is not given the birthday present of a specific dolly that she wants affairs inexorably take a much darker turn with terrifying life destroying consequences for everyone."