High on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the loss of
Lily, mother of twins Eliot and Miranda, and beloved wife of Luc. Miranda misses
her with particular intensity. Their mazy, capricious house belonged to her
mother's ancestors, and to Miranda, newly attuned to spirits, newly hungry for
chalk, it seems they have never left. Forcing apples to grow in winter,
revealing and concealing secret floors, the house is fiercely possessive of
young Miranda. Joining voices with her brother and her best friend Ore, it tells
her story: haunting in every sense, and a spine-tingling tribute to the power of
magic, myth and