It plastered her raincoat and her nurse’s uniform to her as she fought her way along the narrow street beneath sodden embers of sodium lamps. The drenched concrete pole of the bus stop crumbled under her fingers as she pushed herself towards the side street and met the August storm.
Beyond the station the bus splashed past Thompsons Boot Repairers into Mount Pleasant, where the windows of tall terraces dwindled towards the roofs, and Alison was already hauling herself along the swaying aisle towards the exit doors. Under the Five Lamps, five globes skirting a stone angel, a train slipped eel-like through the bridge.
At the foot of the overpass, the broad Georgian houses of Waterloo were blocks of mud. Alison Faraday could see nothing of the Seaforth docks or the marina except rain and blurred lights, and she felt as if she were drowning. Read moreĪs the bus out of Liverpool sped up the overpass, the night storm from Wales came across the bay to meet it. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established the award winners, and exciting, original voices. if the child who takes her place in the family isn’t Rowan, Rowan may be somewhere else not quite like our world…įLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Only her aunt Hermione suspects how sinister this is, but will retrieving the locket save her niece? By the time anyone sees what effect the ghostly influence on Rowan is having, it may be too late for her. She’s buried with a locket that contains a lock of Rowan’s hair, and soon afterwards Rowan is befriended by a mysterious uncannily intelligent girl of her own age.
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