Jagged Window

Author: Robertson, Wendy

Edition: New Ed

Format: International Edition

Number Of Pages: 448

EAN: 9780755306428

Release Date: 03-02-2000

Package Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 1.3 inches

Languages: English

Binding: Paperback

Details: Edward Maichin is the golden boy of the Chapels. But at home, Edward's hidden darkness runs riot: his Irish Catholic mother, has no control over him since his father, Ellis, fled to America; his two brothers, Rhys and Caspar, live in fear of him. Only Theo, his imaginative younger sister, dares defy him. A suspicious death halts Edward's rise, forcing the family out of the valley, to the mines of the North-East, where Theo's talent for writing begins to match her brother's skills in social climbing. But when Theo takes a position as companion to a strange old woman, she discovers a family even more complex and vulnerable than her own...