The Lost Child
by Ann Troup
Mandy Miller disappeared from Hallow’s End when she was just 3 years old. She was never found.Thirty
years on, Elaine Ellis is carrying her mother’s ashes back to Hallow’s
End to scatter them in the place that she once called home. Elaine has
never been there, but it’s the only place Jean talked about while she
was growing up – so it seems as good a place as any.As Elaine
settles into her holiday cottage in the peaceful Devonshire village, she
gets to know the locals; family she never knew she had, eccentric and
old-fashioned gentry, and new friends where she would least expect them.
But she is intrigued by the tale of the missing girl that the village
still carries at its heart, and which somehow continues to overshadow
them all. Little does she know how much more involved in the mystery she
will become…
years on, Elaine Ellis is carrying her mother’s ashes back to Hallow’s
End to scatter them in the place that she once called home. Elaine has
never been there, but it’s the only place Jean talked about while she
was growing up – so it seems as good a place as any.As Elaine
settles into her holiday cottage in the peaceful Devonshire village, she
gets to know the locals; family she never knew she had, eccentric and
old-fashioned gentry, and new friends where she would least expect them.
But she is intrigued by the tale of the missing girl that the village
still carries at its heart, and which somehow continues to overshadow
them all. Little does she know how much more involved in the mystery she
will become…