The Silver family move from the city to the coast to begin a new life in a vast, mysterious house near Dover. But when their mother Lily is killed on assignment, the intense closeness between twins Miranda and Eliot, and between them and their gentle father, has a hole punched deep into its heart.
Furthermore, things are not well with the house, which creaks atop the cliffs, malignly confuses visitors in its mazy warren of rooms, and grows white winter apples in the garden at a time when the branches should be bare. Miranda, with her appetite for chalk and her keen sense for spirits, is more attuned to her home's four walls and to the women that have inhabited them than she is to her brother and father. Slowly she seems to disappear before their very eyes... until one dark night she v ...Read More
The Silver family move from the city to the coast to begin a new life in a vast, mysterious house near Dover. But when their mother Lily is killed on assignment, the intense closeness between twins Miranda and Eliot, and between them and their gentle father, has a hole punched deep into its heart.
Furthermore, things are not well with the house, which creaks atop the cliffs, malignly confuses visitors in its mazy warren of rooms, and grows white winter apples in the garden at a time when the branches should be bare. Miranda, with her appetite for chalk and her keen sense for spirits, is more attuned to her home's four walls and to the women that have inhabited them than she is to her brother and father. Slowly she seems to disappear before their very eyes... until one dark night she v ...Read More
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