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The Fletchers' beautiful new house is everything they dreamed it would be. Built between two churches in Heptonclough, a small village on the moors that time forgot, it ought to be paradise for this young family of five, but they barely have a chance to settle in before they find that they’re... read more

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  • “She's Gone”
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  • ten-year-old Tom Fletcher’s favourite joke in those days; because the Fletchers built their new house in the midst of a graveyard.
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The Fletcher Family built their big, shiny new house on the crest of the moor, in a town that time seemed to have left to mind its own business.

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Prologue
Part One: Waning Moon
Chapters 1 - 17
Part Two: Blood Harvest
Chapters 18 - 41
Part Three: Day of the Dead
Chapters 42 - 84
Epilogue

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  • death: mother has trouble over the death of her daughter

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  1. S. J. Bolton (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam Press
Country: England
Publication Date: April 1, 2010
ISBN: 9780593064115
Page Count: 432

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  • Library of Congress: fiction
  • Dewey: 823.92

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