The Key In The Lock

''Echoes of Daphne Du Maurier . . . an intriguing, elegantly constructed gothic mystery'' Sunday Times
''The Key in the Lock demands to be devoured whole'' Stacey Halls, author of Mrs England

A captivating story of burning secrets and buried shame, and of the loyalty and love that rises from the ashes.
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''I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire...''

By day, Ivy Boscawen mourns the loss of her son Tim in the Great War. But by night she mourns another boy - one whose death decades ago haunts her still.

For Ivy is sure that there is more to what happened all those years ago: the fire at the Great House, and the terrible events that came after. A truth she must uncover, if she is ever to be free.

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION PICK

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''Intriguing, beguiling and surprising until the very end - I was transfixed'' Claire