The Woman in the Wood - Lesley Pearse - 9781405921084

'A gripping new novel' HELLO! Magazine _______________ London 1960 The lives of teenage twins Maisy and Duncan change for ever the night their sick mother is taken to an asylum. Sent to live in the New Forest with their cold-hearted grandmother Mrs Mitcham they feel unloved and abandoned. And when one day Duncan doesn't come home from exploring in the forest no one - least of all his grandmother - appears to care about his disappearance. The police who've found the bodies of other missing boys offer little hope of finding Duncan alive. Yet Maisy refuses to give up. Though she doesn't know the woods well she knows someone who does. The strange old woman who lives at their heart. Dare Maisy enlist the help of the woman in the wood? _______________ 'A real page-turner a family story that is multi-layered just as you'd expect from Lesley Pearse who is deservedly one of the world's favourite story tellers' My Weekly 'Characters it is impossible not to care about . . . this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail

TITLE: The Woman in the Wood

AUTHOR: Lesley Pearse

SKU: 9781405921084

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 31/01/2018

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 416

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm

WEIGHT: 289 gr