The Underhistory

''Hauntingly creepy'' - ERIN KELLY''A unique jewel of a book'' - LIZZY BARBER''A heartfelt and chilling gothic tragedy'' - CHRIS WHITAKERPeople come to visit my home and I love to show them around. It''s not the original house of course. That was destroyed the day my entire family died. But I don''t think their ghosts know the difference.Pera Sinclair was nine the day the pilot intentionally crashed his plane into her family''s grand home, killing everyone inside. She was the girl who survived the tragedy, a sympathetic oddity, growing stranger by the day. Over the decades she rebuilt the huge and rambling building on the original site, recreating what she had lost, each room telling a piece of the story of her life and that of the many people who died there, both before and after the disaster. Her sister, murdered a hundred miles away. The soldier, broken by war. Death follows Pera, and she welcomes it in as an old friend. And while she doesn''t believe in ghosts, she''s not above tel