The fire was a family tragedy that Jamie cant forget, even in his dreams. And now there is something terrifying happening to him in Crownhill, the village where hes been sent to get over his problems. Something to do with an evil old witch who gets into his nightmares, and a frightened girl, the victim of a long-ago witch hunt, whose presence lingers on.As the dark secrets of Crownhill are revealed Jamie has to confront his worst fears in order to free himself from the horrors of the past.Marcus Sedgwick weaves extracts from reports of a seventeenth-century witch hunt into a tense and brilliant novel.
Marcus Sedgwick is a full time author. His first novel Floodland won the Branford Boase Award for the best debut children's novel of 2000. Since then his books have been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize the Blue Peter Book Award the Costa Book Award the Carnegie Medal and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
Find his website at www.marcussedgwick.com and follow him on Twitter @marcussedgwick.
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